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lixa

water, lye

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Where it lives

Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Maximini Duo 2 · 3.69/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Historiae 6 · 1.17/10k
Jugurtha 2 · 0.94/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 3 · 0.4/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lixa — de Vaan

lixa 'water, lye' [f. a] (Nonius) ^ Derivatives: lixrvus '(probably) liquid, flowing' (Cato+); elixus 'boiled' (P1.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. lixa, p. 361]

2. lixa — Lewis & Short

lixa, ae, m.perh. linquo,

I a sutler: non lixa sequebatur, Liv. 39, 1: lixae modo sine insignibus, sine lictoribus, profectum, id. 21, 63: lixarum in modum negotiari, id. 5, 8: lixae ac negotiatores, Tac. A. 2, 62.—

II Transf.

A In plur.: lixae, camp-followers, consisting of sutlers, cooks, servants, etc.: lixas e castris submovit, Val. Max. 2, 7, 2: lixae permixti cum militibus, Sall. J. 44: ne lixae exercitum sequerentur, id. ib. 45: agmini totidem lixas habenti quot milites, Quint. 8, 6, 42; Justin. 38, 10, 2.—

B An attendant on a magistrate, App. M. 1, p. 113, 22.

3. lixa — Walde–Hofmann

lixa, -ae m. „Marketender* (seit Bell. Afr. (-1- nach Stolz HC. I 454 wegen Suidas Aei£m, das aber auf der Verknüpfung mit Aeiyw beruhen wird]; sémiliza „halber Marketender“ Liv., lixiones 'aquárum portitórés' Gl): wohl wie eacula (càlo?) Fremdwort, u. zw. etrusk, gleich den anderen mask. Simplizia wie sculna scurra verna (vgl. Vendryes MSL. 22, 98). — Die Vbdg. mit leere ,feilbieten auf Grund eines es-St. *Teicos … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lixa, p. 849]

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. lixa (scan p. 361; entry #930).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. lixa (scan p. 849; entry #1574).

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