The corpus record — Latin

magistra

magistra · f

a mistress, superior, conductress, directress

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Testimionio Animae 2 · 8.95/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

măgistra — Lewis & Short

măgistra, ae, f.id.,

I a mistress, superior, conductress, directress, etc.

I Lit (very rare): ludo magistra esse, school-mistress, instructress, Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 7.—A highpriestess, Inscr. Orell. 1501; 1519 sq.; 2427 sq.—

II Trop., a directress, conductress, instructress: nunc ego ad vos discipulus venio ad magistras, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 32: vita rustica parsimoniae magistra est. Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 75: philosophia magistra vitae, id. Tusc. 5, 2, 5: historia, magistra vitae, id. de Or. 2, 9, 36: lex quasi dux vitae et magistra officiorum, id. N. D. 1, 15, 40: frigus formicā quidam expavere magistrā, Juv. 6, 361: vita magistra, id. 13, 22: arte magistrā, with the aid of art, Verg. A. 8, 442: pietate magistrā, Stat. Achil. 1 104.—Adj. (poet.): artes magistrae, Ov. H. 15, 82: jussis parere magistris, Sil. 3, 387: clementia magistra, Claud. 22, 22.

In the wild

magistram Terence, Hecyra 2.1
magistrae Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 2.6.15
magistrae Tertullian, De Testimionio Animae 5
magistram Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.109
magistram Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.49
magistrae Martial, Epigrammata 11.78.11

6 of 21 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.