The corpus record — Latin

nepeta2

nepeta2 · f

a city in Etruria

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
De Medicina 13 · 1.27/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. Nĕpĕta — Lewis & Short

Nĕpĕta, ae, f., or Nĕpĕte, is, n.,

I a city in Etruria, now Nepi, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52; Liv. 6, 21; 10, 14; 27, 9.—Collat. form, Nĕpe, Vell. 1, 14, 2.—Hence,

II Nĕpĕ-sīnus (Nepens-), a, um, adj., Nepesine: ager, Liv. 5, 19.—Subst.: Nĕpĕsīni, ōrum, m., the Nepesines, Liv. 6, 9 and 10.

2. nĕpĕta — Lewis & Short

nĕpĕta, ae, f.,

I a plant, Italian catnip (Nepeta Italica, Willd.), Cels. 2, 21; Plin. 14, 16, 19, § 105.

In the wild

nepeta Celsus, De Medicina 2.25
nepeta Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.14.p5
nepetae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.5.18
nepetae Celsus, De Medicina 5.18.p32
nepeta Celsus, De Medicina 2.21
nepeta Celsus, De Medicina 4.15

6 of 21 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. nepeta (scan p. 461; entry #7424).

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