The corpus record — Latin

mitra

mitra · f

A headband, coif, turban

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Where it lives

Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Elegiae 4 · 1.58/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mī^tra — Lewis & Short

mī^tra, ae, f., = mi/tra.

I A headband, coif, turban of the Asiatics; in Greece and Rome worn only by women, except occasionally by effeminate young men: P. Clodius a crocotā, a mitrā ... est factus repente popularis, Cic. Har. Resp. 21, 44; Plin. 35, 9, 35, § 58: picta lupa barbara mitra, Juv. 3, 66. Also worn by Bacchus, Prop. 4, 2, 31.—

II A rope (late Lat.), Tert. Carm. de Jona et Ninive, 42; cf. Isid. 19, 4, 6.

In the wild

mitra Propertius, Elegiae 3.17.30
mitra Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.148
mitrae Vergil, Aeneid 9.616
mitrae Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1129
mitra Ovid, Fasti 3.669
mitrasque Statius, Achilleis 1.715

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mitra (scan p. 431; entry #6931).

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