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lacerta

lacerta · f

A lizard

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Naturalis Historia 44 · 1.11/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. lăcerta — Lewis & Short

lăcerta, ae, f., and lăcertus, i, m.

I A lizard: lacerta, Plin. 8, 39, 60, § 141; Ov. M. 5, 458; Hor. C. 1, 23, 7; Mart. 14, 172; Juv. 14, 75: lacertus, Verg. E. 2, 9; id. G. 4, 13; Juv. 14, 131; cf. Schol. Juv. 3, 231. —Prov.: unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae, to get a little place of one's own (if only big enough for a lizard), Juv. 3, 231. —

II A sea-fish, otherwise unknown: lacertus, Cic. Att. 2, 6, 1; Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 149; Cels. 2, 18; Mart. 10, 48, 11 al.: lacerta, Dig. 33, 9, 3, § 3.

2. lacerta — Walde–Hofmann

lacerta, -ae f. (seit Varro und Cic.) und -us, - m. (seit Verg.; vgl. das Nebeneinander von gr. cabpä und aadpoc) ,Eidechse"; auch (nach gr. vabpa) „makrelenartiger Seefisch“, tpaxobpoc’ (in beiden Formen und Bedd. rom.): zu lacertus „Oberarm“; u. zw. als die ,biegsame* oder ,zappelnde, bewegliche“ (Fick I* 539, Jokl IF. 37, 110: m. Bed.-Parallelen; vgl. lóeusta); nicht als „die straffe, muskulóse* (Reichelt KZ: 46, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lacerta, p. 775]

In the wild

lacertae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.9
lacertae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p1
lacertam Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 17_18.108.29.p2
lacertae Horace, Carmina 1.23
Lacertae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.39.p2
lacerta Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.4.p18

6 of 56 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. lacerta (scan p. 360; entry #5644).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. lacerta (scan p. 775; entry #1469).

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