Maera — Lewis & Short
Maera, ae, f., = *mai=ra.
I The name of a woman who was changed into a dog, Ov. M. 7, 362; 13, 406; the name of a dog, Hyg. Fab. 131.—
II A priestess of Venus, Stat. Th. 8, 478.
The corpus record — Latin
Maera
Maera · f
The name of a woman who was changed into a dog
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
- Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Maera Statius, Thebais 8.477
- Maera Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.362
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.