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hibrida

hibrida · comm

a mongrel

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Where it lives

De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k

What it meant

hibrĭda — Lewis & Short

hibrĭda or hybrĭda (ibr-), ae, comm.most prob. kindred with u(bri/zw, u(/bris, qs. unbridled, lawless, unnatural; hence, of animals produced from two different species,

I a mongrel, hybrid.

I Lit.: in nullo genere aeque facilis mixtura cum fero (quam in suibus), qualiter natos antiqui hybridas vocabant ceu semiferos, Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 213.—

II Transf., of persons, one born of a Roman father and a foreign mother, or of a freeman and a slave: ibique postea ex hybridis, libertinis servisque conscripserat, Auct. B. Afr. 19, 4: hybrida quo pacto sit Persius ultus, Hor. S. 1, 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 19; Mart. 6, 39, 20; 8, 22: Q. Varius propter obscurum jus civitatis Hibrida cognominatus, Val. Max. 8, 6, 4.

In the wild

ibridae Suetonius, Divus Augustus 19.1
hibridis Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 19

Where it came from

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