The corpus record — Latin

Nabataea

Nabataea · f

a country in Arabia Petræa

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Năbătaea — Lewis & Short

Năbătaea (Năbăthaea), ae, f., = *nabataia,

I a country in Arabia Petræa, Plin. 21, 18, 72, § 120.—Hence,

A Năbă-thaeus (scanned Năbătaeus, Năbāthaeus, Sid. Carm. 5, 284), a, um, adj., = *nabaqai=os, of or belonging to Nabathæa, Nabathœan: saltus, Juv. 11, 126.—Plur.: Năbătaei or Năbăthaei, ōrum, m., = *nabatai=oi or *nabaqai=oi, the Nabathæans, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 144; 12, 20, 44, § 98; Auct. B. Alex. 1, 1; Tac. A. 2, 57; Amm. 14, 8, 12.—

2 Poet., transf., for Arabian, Eastern, Oriental: Eurus ad Auroram Nabathaeaque regna recessit, Ov. M. 1, 61: Nabathaei flatus Euri, Luc. 4, 63.—

B Năbăthes, ae, m., a Nabathæan, Sen. Herc. Oet. 160.

In the wild

Nabataea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.18.p5
Nabataeaque Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.61
Nabataea Seneca, Agamemnon 1

Where it came from

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

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