The corpus record — Latin

formica

formica · f

an ant

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Where it lives

De Anima 4 · 1.68/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
de Natura Deorum 4 · 1.12/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
Naturalis Historia 38 · 0.96/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Tristia 2 · 0.88/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

formīca — Lewis & Short

formīca, ae, f.root mur-, to swarm, Gr. mu/rmos, mu/rmhc; cf. Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 339 sq.,

I an ant, emmet, pismire: te faciam ut formicae frustillatim differant, Plaut. Curc. 4, 4, 20; Plin. 11, 30, 36, § 108; Cic. N. D. 3, 9, 21; Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 5; Verg. G. 1, 186; 380; id. A. 4, 402; Hor. S. 1, 1, 33 al.—Prov.: confit cito, Quam si formicis tu obicias papaverem, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 8.

Where it came from

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