The corpus record — Latin

medela

medela · f

a healing, cure, a remedy

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 4 · 5.43/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Peristephanon Liber 5 · 2.85/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k

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

What it meant

mĕdēla — Lewis & Short

mĕdēla (mĕdella, Lachm. ad ae, f.medeor,

Lucr. p. 204; Schol. Bob. ad Cic. Red. ad Quir. p. 251, 8 Bait.),

I a healing, cure, a remedy (post-class.).

I Lit.: facere medelam, Gell. 12, 5, 3: facere medelarum miracula, id. 16, 11, 2: vulneribus medelas adhibere, App. M. 8, p. 210, 4.—

II Trop., a remedy, means of redress: legum, Gell. 20, 1, 22; Aus. Prof. 15: quibus rebus veluti medela adventus Alexandri fuit, Just. 11, 1, 7.

In the wild

6 of 36 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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