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mapalia

mapalia · n

huts, cottages

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Where it lives

Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Punica 7 · 0.92/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Jugurtha 1 · 0.47/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. măpālĭa — Lewis & Short

măpālĭa, ĭum, n.Punic,

I huts, cottages of the Africans: mapalia casae Punicae appellantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 146, 25 Müll.; so ib. p. 147; cf.: aedificia Numidarum agrestium, quae mapalia illi vocant, oblonga, incurvis lateribus tecta, quasi navium carinae sunt, Sall. J. 18, 8: ex oppidis et mapalibus, id. ib. 46, 5: cum mapalibus pecoribusque suis persecuti sunt regem, Liv. 29, 31: et raris habitata mapalia tectis, Verg. G. 3, 340; Sil. 17, 89; Mart. 10, 20, 8.—In sing., Aus. Per. Odyss. 16.—Collect. coït e sparso concita mapali Agrestum manus, Val. Fl. 2, 460.—

II Transf.

A A house of ill-repute, Petr. S. 58, 13.—

B Useless things, follies, Sen. Apoc. 9, 1.

2. mápalia — Walde–Hofmann

mápalia (mapp- schlechtere Schreibung in Anlehnung an mappa, Heraeus ALL. 12, 279 A.), -iwm n. (meist Pl.; Sg. Val. Fl.) „eine Art BL; 36 mappa — marceö. Zeltwagen^ (Plin. 16, 178, während Sall. lug. 18, 8 von der Bedachung mit Ziegelsteinen spricht), ,transportable Hütten von Backofen- oder Schilfskielform"; übtr. ,Durcheinander, Possen* (Sen. Petron., s. Heinze Herm. 61, 64, Goldberger GI. 20, 146) (seit Cato): … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. mápalia, p. 941]

In the wild

6 of 23 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. mapalia (scan p. 410; entry #6546).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. mápalia (scan pp. 941-943; entry #1692). Root candidates: *morq-, *bracu-, *mrakno-.

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