The corpus record — Latin

Mosella

Mosella · m

a river of Belgic Gaul

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Where it lives

Mosella 12 · 36.91/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Historiae 3 · 0.58/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Mŏsella — Lewis & Short

Mŏsella, ae, m. and f.,

I a river of Belgic Gaul, now the Moselle, Tac. A. 13, 53; id. H. 4, 71; 77: largus Mosella, Aus. de Clar. Urb. 4: placida Mosella, id. Idyll. 10, 73.—Also called Mŏsŭla, ae, f., Flor. 3, 10, 14.—Hence, Mŏsellēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Moselle: ortus, Symm. Ep. 1, 8.

In the wild

Mosella Ausonius, Mosella pr.469
Mosellae Ausonius, Mosella ep.p2
Mosella Ausonius, Mosella pr.381
Mosellam Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.45.10.14
Mosellae Ausonius, Mosella pr.467
Mosellam Tacitus, Annales 13.p54

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.