1. mўa — Lewis & Short
mўa, ae, f., = mu/a,
I a kind of mussel on the shores of the Thracian Bosporus, Plin. 9, 35, 56, § 115.
The corpus record — Latin
ma
ma · f
a kind of mussel
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
- Pro M. Tullio 1 · 2.91/10k
- De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
- Tusculanae Disputationes 10 · 1.76/10k
- De Inventione 4 · 1.21/10k
- Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k
- Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
- Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k
- De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
- Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
- De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
- De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ma — Walde–Hofmann
ma (Petron 57, 8 nec mu nec ma): Schallnachahmung des Typus tux tax, butubatia (Ottenjann Gl. 6, 224). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ma, p. 907]
In the wild
- Ma Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.77
- Ma Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.19
- ma Cicero, De Inventione 1.3
- Ma Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.37
- ma Cicero, Pro M. Tullio 51
- ma Cicero, Letters to Atticus 14.13.1
6 of 49 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.