The corpus record — Latin

mĕtoecus

mĕtoecus · m

a stranger, sojourner, denizen, resident alien

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What it meant

mĕtoecus — Lewis & Short

mĕtoecus, i, m., = me/toikos,

I a stranger, sojourner, denizen, resident alien dwelling in a city without the rights of citizenship (post-class.), Eum. Pan. Flavens. Nom. Dict. 4 fin.: ager militi metoeco (al. modico) est assignatus, Front. de Colon. p. 134 Goes. (written mĕtycus, Gromat. Vet. 234, 19; 238, 7 Lachm.).

Where it came from

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

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