The corpus record — Latin

noctua1

noctua1 · f

a night-owl, an owl

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Where it lives

Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 3 · 2.74/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
De Anima 3 · 1.26/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Naturalis Historia 18 · 0.45/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k

What it meant

1. noctŭa — Lewis & Short

noctŭa, ae, f.nox,

I a night-owl, an owl, a bird sacred to Minerva: noctua, quod noctu canit ac vigilat, Varr. L. L. 5, § 76 Müll.; Paul. ex Fest. pp. 174 and 175 ib.; Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 90: noctuarum dimicatio, Plin. 10, 17, 19, § 39: garrula, id. 18, 35, 87, § 362: seros exercet noctua cantūs, Verg. G. 1, 403.

2. Noctŭa — Lewis & Short

Noctŭa, ae, m.,

I a Roman surname: Q. Caedicius Noctua, a consul with M. Valerius Corvinus A. U. C. 465.

In the wild

noctuae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.74.p2
noctua Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.574
noctuam Plautus, Menaechmi 4.2
noctua Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.74.p2
noctuae Martial, Epigrammata 3.93.10
noctua Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.29.p81

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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