1. găbăta — Lewis & Short
găbăta, ae, f.perh. from cavus,
I a kind of dish or platter (post-Aug.); Mart. 7, 48, 3; 11, 31, 18.
The corpus record — Latin
gabata
gabata · f
a kind of dish
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Where it lives
- Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
What it meant
2. gabata — Walde–Hofmann
gabata (inschr. und hss. auch -th-, hss. gav-), -ae f. „Schale, Schüssel, hólzernes Gefäß“ (seit Mart., rom. [neben *gauta „Wange“, das aber trotz Niedermann IA. 26, 23, Goldberger Cl. 18, 32f. ein anderes. Wort zu sein scheint, s. Gamillscheg 541, Meyer-Lübke WuS, 12, 8]; daraus entl. ahd. gebiza, gebita Efgeschirr*. vgl. auch gavessa f. „Art Gefäß?“, s, Thes): Fremdwort, samt gr. vaBabDóv* tpupAMov, CdBaroc' mívaE … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. gabata, p. 607]
In the wild
- gabatas Martial, Epigrammata 11.31.18
- gabatae Martial, Epigrammata 7.48.3
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. gabata (scan p. 289; entry #4506).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. gabata (scan p. 607; entry #1203). Root candidates: *kabbat-.
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