mĕtaxa — Lewis & Short
mĕtaxa or mătaxa, ae, f., = me/taca and ma/taca,
I raw silk, the web of silkworms.
I Lit., Dig. 39, 4, 16; Cod. Just. 11, 7, 10.—
II Transf., a rope: lini metaxa, Lucil. ap. Fest. s. v. rodus, p. 265 Müll.; Vitr. 7, 3.
The corpus record — Latin
metaxa
metaxa · f
raw silk
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Where it lives
- De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- mataxae Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.3.2
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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