The corpus record — Latin

gaster

gaster · f

the belly

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Where it lives

Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

What it meant

gaster — Lewis & Short

gaster, tĕris, and tri, f., = gasth/r,

I the belly (pure Lat. venter).

I Lit.: inflatio secundum gastera, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 8.—

II Transf., a big-bellied vessel, Petr. 70; 79; Marc. Emp. 8 med.

In the wild

gastris Petronius, Satyricon 70

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.