The corpus record — Latin

Meroe

Meroe · f

a large and celebrated island of the Nile, in Ethiopia

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 3 · 8.23/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Pharsalia 5 · 0.98/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
Naturalis Historia 24 · 0.61/10k

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

What it meant

Mĕrŏē — Lewis & Short

Mĕrŏē, ēs, f., = *mero/h,

I a large and celebrated island of the Nile, in Ethiopia, now the province of Atbar, Mela, 1, 9, 2; Plin. 2, 73, 75, § 184; Ov. F. 4, 570; Luc. 10, 303; Juv. 6, 528.—Transf., in a lusus verbb. with merum, of a tippling woman (cf. merobibus), Aus. Epigr. 20.—Hence, Mĕ-rŏētĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Meroë, Meroëtic: ebenus Meroëtica, Luc. 10, 117 Cort. (al. Mareotica).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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