The corpus record — Latin

Maedi

Maedi · m

a Thracian people on the borders of Macedonia

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Maedi — Lewis & Short

Maedi (Mēdi), ōrum, m., = *mai=doi,

I a Thracian people on the borders of Macedonia, Plin. 4, 1, 1, § 3; 4, 11, 18, § 40; Liv. 26, 25, 6; 28, 5; Eutr. 5, 7.—Hence,

II Mae-dĭcus (Mēd-), a, um, adj., = *maidiko/s, of or belonging to the Mædi.—Subst.: Maedĭca, ae, f. (sc. terra or regio), the Mædian territory, Liv. 26, 25, 8; 40, 21; 22.

In the wild

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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