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The corpus record — Latin

Mamercus

Mamercus · m

an Oscan prænomen

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

Where it lives

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

What it meant

Māmercus — Lewis & Short

Māmercus, i, m.Mamers for Mars,

I an Oscan prænomen: Mamercus praenomen Oscum est, ab eo, quod hi Martem Mamertem appellant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 130 Müll.—
II A Roman surname in the Æmilian gens, who claimed Numa as their ancestor: ridere Mamercorum alapas, Juv. 8, 192.—Esp.: M. Aemilius Mamercus, Cic. Brut. 47, 175.

In the wild

6 of 40 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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