The corpus record — Latin

maena

maena · f

a kind of small sea-fish

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Where it lives

Saturae 3 · 6.63/10k
Medea 3 · 5.3/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

maena — Lewis & Short

maena (mēna), ae, f., = mai/nh,

I a kind of small sea-fish, eaten salted by the poor, Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 149; Ov. Hal. 120; Mart. 11, 31, 14; 12, 32, 15; Pers. 3, 76: acipenserem maenae non anteponere, Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 91.—As a term of reproach: deglupta maena, Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 33.

In the wild

6 of 20 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. maena (scan p. 401; entry #6374).

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