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Maia2

cheeks, jaws

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Where it lives

Genethliacon ad Ausonium Nepotem 1 · 58.48/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 7 · 7.34/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Letters to Atticus 44 · 3.58/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 4 · 1.98/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 2 · 1.38/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 1 · 1.32/10k
Fasti 4 · 1.28/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. maia — de Vaan

maia 'cheeks, jaws' [f. a] (P1.+; usually pi.) Derivatives: maxilla 'lower part of the face, jaws' (Cic.+). Pit. *smaksla-, PIE *smk-slo/h2- 'beard, chin'. IE cognates: Olr. smech 'chin', Hit. zamakur, — [de Vaan, s.v. maia, p. 373]

2. maia — Lewis & Short

maia, ae, f., = mai=a,

I a large kind of crab, Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97; al. maea.

3. Māia — Lewis & Short

Māia, Māja (written by Cicero Majja, like ejjus, pejjus, etc.;

I v. the letter J), ae, f., = *mai=a.

I Daughter of Atlas and Pleione, and the mother of Mercury by Jupiter, Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 56: Majā genitum demittit ab alto, i. e. Mercury, Verg. A. 1, 297: Maiā natus, Hor. S. 2, 6, 5; Ov. M. 11, 303; Macr. S. 1, 12, 19; acc. Majam, Ov. F. 4, 174.—As one of the Pleiades: sanctissima Maja, Cic. Arat. 270: multi ante occasum Majae coepere, Verg. G. 1, 225; Ov. F. 4, 174; 5, 85.—

II A daughter of Faunus, Macr. S. 1, 12.

In the wild

6 of 116 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. maia (scan p. 373; entry #985). Root candidates: *smaksla-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Maia (scan p. 403; entry #6415).

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