The corpus record — Latin

mappa

mappa · f

a napkin, table-napkin; a towel

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 16 · 2.84/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mappa — Lewis & Short

mappa, ae, f.Punic, Quint. 1, 5, 57,

I a napkin, table-napkin; a towel.

I Lit.: Varius mappa compescere risum Vix poterat, Hor. S. 2, 8, 63: laticlavia, Petr. 32; Mart. 4, 46, 17: rubra detergere vulnera mappa, Juv. 5, 27.—

II Transf., a cloth with which the signal for starting was given to racers in the circus, a signalcloth: mappam usitatum Circo nomen, Poeni sibi vindicant, Quint. 1, 5, 57: mappa cretata, Mart. 12, 29, 9: Megalesiacae spectacula mappae, Juv. 11, 191: aliquo liberto mittente mappam, unde magistratus solent, Suet. Ner. 22.

In the wild

mappam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.57
mappa Martial, Epigrammata 7.20.13
mappa Juvenal, Saturae 1.5.27
mappa Horace, Epistulae 1.5.22
mappas Statius, Silvae 1.6.31
mappa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.11.p13

6 of 35 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. mappa (scan p. 410; entry #6549).

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