The corpus record — Latin

herois

herois · f

a demi-goddess

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 2 · 27.14/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k

What it meant

hērōis — Lewis & Short

hērōis, ĭdis, f., = h(rwi+/s,

I a demi-goddess, heroine: heroidum ac dearum personis effictis, Suet. Ner. 21: veteres heroidas aequare, Ov. Am. 2, 4, 33.—In Gr., dat. plur. heroisin, Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 43.—

II Hērōĭdes, the title of the Epistles of Ovid, acc. to Prisc. p. 908 P.

In the wild

heroides Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.3
heroides Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.95
heroidum Suetonius, Nero 21.3

Where it came from

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

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