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framea

framea · f

A spear

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Where it lives

de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 7 · 12.7/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

frămĕa — Lewis & Short

frămĕa, ae, f.an old Germ. word.

I A spear, javelin, used by the ancient Germans: hastas vel ipsorum vocabulo frameas gerunt angusto et brevi ferro, sed ita acri et ad usum habili, ut eodem telo, proüt ratio poscit, vel comminus vel eminus pugnent, Tac. G. 6; 11; 14; 18; 24; Gell. 10, 25, 2: Martis, Juv. 13, 79.—

II In late Lat., a sword, Aug. Ep. 120, 16; Vulg. Psa. 16, 13.

In the wild

frameaque Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 13.1
framea Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 18.3
frameae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.25.2
frameaque Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 6.2
frameas Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 11.6
frameas Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 24.2

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. framea (scan p. 275; entry #4309).

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