The corpus record — Latin

harpastum

harpastum · n

a hand-ball

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

harpastum — Lewis & Short

harpastum, i, n., = a(rpasto/n,

I a hand-ball: sive harpasta manu pulverulenta rapis, Mart. 4, 19, 6; 7, 67, 4.

In the wild

Harpasto Martial, Epigrammata 7.67.4
harpasta Martial, Epigrammata 7.32.10
Harpasten Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.50.2
harpasta Martial, Epigrammata 4.19.6

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.