The corpus record — Latin

Matrae

Matrae · f

the protecting goddesses of a country, city

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Where it lives

Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 3 · 3.99/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Hecyra 2 · 2.22/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 2 · 1.24/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Epistulae 3 · 1.17/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k

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

What it meant

Matrae — Lewis & Short

Matrae, ārum, f. (

I dat. plur. MATRABVS, for Matris, Inscr. Grut. 29, 1), or Matres, more freq. Matronae, the protecting goddesses of a country, city, or place: MATRIS AVGVSTIS D. D., Inscr. Grut. 90, 1; so ib. 2 sq.

In the wild

Matris Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 128.4
Matris Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p14
Matris Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 37
Matris Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.615
Matris Vergil, Georgicon 4.64
Matris Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.635

6 of 56 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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