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orsa

orsa · n

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What it meant

orsa — Lewis & Short

orsa, ōrum, n.ordior.

I Beginnings, commencements, an undertaking, attempt: ut (di) orsis tanti operis successus prosperos darent, Liv. praef. fin.: Orsa juvare, Val. Fl. 1, 21.—

II In partic., words, speech (poet.): sic orsa vicissim Ore refert, Verg. A. 7, 435; 10, 632; 11, 124; Val. Fl. 5, 472: Menandri, i. e. carmina, Aus. Idyll. 4, 46.

Where it came from

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

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