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Palaestina

Palaestina · f

the country of Palestine

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Apologeticum 2 · 1/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

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

What it meant

Pălaestīnă — Lewis & Short

Pălaestīnă (Pălest-), ae, and Pă-laestīnē, ēs, f., = *palaisti/nh,

I the country of Palestine, in Syria, Mel. 1, 11, 2; Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66 sq.—Hence,

A Pă-laestīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Palestine: aqua, the Euphrates, Ov. F. 2, 464: Syrus, Tib. 1, 8, 17 (7, 18): Palaestini simul Hebraeique liquores, Stat. S. 5, 1, 213. —In plur.: Pălaestīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Palestine, Ov. M. 4, 46; Hier. in Isa. 14, 29; the Philistines, Vulg. Gen. 21, 33.—

B Pălaestīnensis, e, adj., Palestinian, Spart. Sev. 9.

In the wild

Palaestinasque Statius, Silvae 3.2.105
Palaestinae Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 33
Palaestinae Ovid, Fasti 2.464
Palaestina Tertullian, Apologeticum 5.2
Palaestinas Lucan, Pharsalia 5.460
Palaestina Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.12.8

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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