The corpus record — Latin

parasita

parasita · f

a female parasite

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

părăsīta — Lewis & Short

părăsīta, ae, f.parasitus,

I a female parasite: ciniflones, parasitae, Hor. S. 1, 2, 98.—

II Transf.: imitatrix avis ac parasita, Plin. 10, 23, 33, § 68.

In the wild

parasitae Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.2.98
parasita Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.23.p4

Where it came from

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