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latrina

latrina · f

A bath

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Where it lives

De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

lātrīna — Lewis & Short

lātrīna, ae (collat. forms lăvātrīna, f., and lātrīnum, i, n., Lucil. and Laber. ap. f.contr. from lavatrina, Varr. L. L. 5, § 118 Müll.; 9, § 68 ib..

Non. 212, 10 sq.; cf. Lachm. ad Lucr. 2, p. 393),

I A bath: qui in latrina languet, Lucil. ap. Non. 212, 9.—

II A water-closet, privy, Laber. ap. Non. 212, 10; Plaut. Curc. 4, 4, 24; Suet. Tib. 58; Col. poët. 10, 85.—Form lavatrina, Varr. L. L. 5, § 118 Müll.—

B A brothel: latrinarum antistes, Tert. Pall. 4.

In the wild

latrinae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.5.1
latrinam Plautus, Curculio 4.4
latrinas Suetonius, Nero 24.1
latrinae Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.17.p2
latrinae Suetonius, Tiberius 58.1
latrinam Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.14

6 of 8 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. latrina (scan p. 179; entry #2751).

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