The corpus record — Latin

Gausapa

Gausapa · f

a shaggy woollen cloth

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

gausăpa — Lewis & Short

gausăpa, ae, f., or gausăpes, is, m., also gausăpe, is (only gausăpa, ōrum, n., = gausa/phs,

sing.), and plur.

I a shaggy woollen cloth, frieze, felt, used for clothing, covering, etc.; a garment or cover of frieze.

I Lit.

(a) Sing., nom.: gausapa, according to Varr. ap. Charis. p. 80 P.; and ap. Prisc. p. 759 P.: gausape, M. Messala ap. Charis. p. 80; Mart. 14, 152 in lemm.—Abl.: involutus coccina gausapa, Petr. 28 (perh. acc. plur.): purpureo tersit tunc latas gausape mensas, Lucil. ap. Prisc. p. 870; so, gausape, Hor. S. 2, 8, 11: gausape purpureo salutatus, Cass. Sever. ap. Prisc. p. 759 P.— —

(b) Plur., nom.: gausapa patris mei memoria coepere, amphimalla nostra, sicut villosa etiam ventralia, Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193.—Acc.: gausapa si sumpsit, gausapa sumpta proba, Ov. A. A. 2, 300: lutea gausapa, Pers. 6, 46: gausapes, lodices purpureas et colloreas meas, Aug. ap. Charis. p. 80.—*

II Transf., a shaggy beard: tu cum maxillis balanatum gausape pectas, Pers. 4, 37.

In the wild

gausapa Persius, Saturae 6.46
gausapae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.48.p1
gausapa Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.300
gausapae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.48.p1
gausapa Petronius, Satyricon 28
gausapa Petronius, Satyricon 21

6 of 7 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. gausapa (scan p. 292; entry #4571).

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.