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lira

lira · f

the earth thrown up between two furrows, a ridge

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

līra — Lewis & Short

līra, ae, f.perh. fr. lisa; O. H. Germ. Leisa; Germ. Geleise, a track or rut; cf. delirus,

I the earth thrown up between two furrows, a ridge: liras rustici vocant easdem porcas, cum sic aratum est, ut inter duos latius distantes sulcos medius cumulus siccam sedem frumentis praebeat, Col. 2, 4, 8: patentes liras facere, id. 2, 8, 3: proscissa lira, id. 2, 10; cf. id. 11, 3.—

II Transf., a furrow, acc. to Non. 17, 32; cf. lira, au)=lac, Gloss. Philox.

In the wild

liram Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.10.5
Liris Silius Italicus, Punica 4.348
Liris Claudian, Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1.260
Liris Martial, Epigrammata 10.30.9
Liris Horace, Carmina 1.31
Liris Martial, Epigrammata 13.83.1

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. lira (scan pp. 386-387; entry #6117).

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