The corpus record — Latin

ostrea

ostrea · f

an oyster

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Where it lives

Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Naturalis Historia 16 · 0.4/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ostrĕa — Lewis & Short

ostrĕa, ae, f., and (rarely) ostrĕum, i, n., = o)/streon,

I an oyster, mussel, sea-snail (class.).

(a) Form ostrea, Enn. Heduph. 2 (p. 166 Vahl.); Lucil. ap. Non. 216, 6; Afran.; Turp. and Varr. ib.; Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 8; Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 216, 14: ostrearum vivaria, Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168.—

(b) Form ostreum: luna alit ostrea, Lucil. ap. Gell. 20, 8, 4; id. ap. Non. 216, 16; Varr. ib. 20: ostrea Circeis, Miseno oriuntur echini, Hor. S. 2, 4, 33; Ov. F. 6, 174; Juv. 4, 142. —In sing. collect.: ostrei testas siccas tundere, Pall. 1, 41, 3.

Where it came from

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