hăma — Lewis & Short
hăma (ama), ae, f., = a)/mh,
I a waterbucket, esp. for extinguishing fires, a firebucket, Plin Ep. 10, 42, 2; Juv. 14, 305; Dig. 1, 15, 3; 33, 7, 12, §§ 18, 21 (in Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 42, false reading for aula, Lorenz ad loc.).
The corpus record — Latin
hama
hama · f
a waterbucket
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
- De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
- Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
- Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k
What it meant
In the wild
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.