The corpus record — Latin

lanterna

lanterna · f

a lantern, lamp, torch

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Where it lives

Amphitruo 2 · 2.03/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

lanterna — Lewis & Short

lanterna (ante-class. and later lā-terna), ae, f.Gr. lampth/r, root in la/mpw; cf. Lat. limpidus, lepor, lepidus, lĕpus,

I a lantern, lamp, torch: a portu illic nunc cum laterna huc advenit, Plaut. Am. prol. 149: laterna Punica, id. Aul. 3, 6, 30: linea lanterna, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 5: hic caulis olebit lanternam, Juv. 5, 88; Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 49.

In the wild

lanterna Plautus, Aulularia 3.6
lanternae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.16.p2
lanterna Plautus, Amphitruo 1.1
lanterna Plautus, Amphitruo prologue.pr
lanterna Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.3.5
lanternam Juvenal, Saturae 1.5.88

6 of 9 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. lanterna (scan p. 364; entry #5735).

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