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The corpus record — Latin

macellum

macellum · m

meat-market, provision-market

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Where it lives

  • Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
  • De ieiunio adversus psychicos 3 · 5.08/10k
  • Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
  • Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
  • Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
  • Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
  • Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
  • Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
  • Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
  • Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
  • Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
  • Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

măcellum — Lewis & Short

măcellum, i (măcellus, i, m., n.root max-; cf. Gr. ma/xomai, to fight; cf. ma/xaira, ma/xh, and mactāre; prop. butcher's stall, shambles; hence, transf.,

Mart. 10, 96, 9),
I meat-market, provision-market (where flesh, fish, and vegetables were sold).
I Lit.: venio ad macellum, rogito pisces, Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 3: apud emporium atque in macello, id. Am. 4, 1, 4: nostin' porticum apud macellum hac deorsum? Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 34: excandefacere annonam macelli, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 16; cf.: putarem annonam in macello cariorem fore, Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59: barathrum macelli, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 31: quae est ista laus, quae possit e macello peti? Cic. Fin. 2, 15, 50: dispositis circa macellum custodibus, Suet. Caes. 43: cetariorum, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 7: ad ipsum introitum exspectare macelli, Juv. 11, 10: retibus adsiduis penitus scrutante macello proxima, id. 5, 95.—In masc.: conturbator macellus, Mart. 10, 96, 9.—Plur.: fercula nullis ornata macellis, Juv. 11, 64.—*
II Transf., meat: arcessitur inde macellum, Manil. 5, 370.

In the wild

6 of 50 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. macellum (scan p. 399; entry #6331).

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