The corpus record — Latin

napaeus

napaeus · adj

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Where it lives

Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

năpaeus — Lewis & Short

năpaeus, a, um, adj., = napai=os,

I of or belonging to a wooded vale or dell: nymphae napaeae, dell-nymphs, Col. poët. 10, 264. —Hence,

II Subst.: Năpaeae, ārum, f., the dell-nymphs: faciles venerare Napaeas, Verg. G. 4, 535; Stat. Th. 4, 255; Nemes. Ecl. 2, 20.

In the wild

Napaeae Statius, Thebais 9.386
Napaei Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.17.p1
Napaeos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.7.p2
Napaei Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.33
Napaeae Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 30.87

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.