1. Mēdĭca — Lewis & Short
Mēdĭca, ae, f., = *mhdikh/ [Media],
I an excellent kind of clover introduced from Media; Burgundy-clover, lucern (Medicago sativa), Verg. G. 1, 215; Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 144; Varr. R. R. 1, 42.
The corpus record — Latin
medica
medica · f
an excellent kind of clover introduced from Media; Burgundy-clover, lucern
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
- Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
- Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
- Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k
- Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
- Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
- Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
- Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
- Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
2. mĕdĭca — Lewis & Short
mĕdĭca, ae,
I a female physician; v 1. medicus, II. B.
3. médica — Walde–Hofmann
médica (sc. herba) „aus Medien eingeführter Klee“ (seit Varro, rom,): gr. Mndıkn, ds. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. médica, p. 961]
In the wild
- medicaeque Martial, Epigrammata 11.71.7
- medicae Ausonius, Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 26.5
- medicae Martial, Epigrammata 14.78.1
- medicam Ovid, Ex Ponto 1.3.6
- medicae Ovid, Remedia Amoris 76
- medicae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.16
6 of 14 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. médica (scan p. 416; entry #6672).
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