The corpus record — Latin

menda

menda · f

a fault, defect, blemish

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Where it lives

Ars Amatoria 4 · 2.69/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 5 · 0.88/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Noctes Atticae 4 · 0.36/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

menda — Lewis & Short

menda, ae, f.v. mendum,

I a fault, defect, blemish of the body (poet. and postAug.).

I Lit.: in toto nusquam corpore menda fuit, Ov. Am. 1, 5, 18: nocte latent mendae, id. A. A. 1, 249.—

II Transf., a mistake, error, blunder, in writing, in books, a slip of the pen, Suet. Aug. 87: mendae istins indoles, Gell. 20, 6, 14; 1, 7, 3.

In the wild

mendam Celsus, De Medicina 8.19
mendas Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.261
menda Ovid, Remedia Amoris 417
mendas Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.653
mendae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.7.3
menda Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes praef.p32

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Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. menda (scan p. 420; entry #6732).

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