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Parca

Parca · f

one of the goddesses of Fate

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Where it lives

Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Apocolocyntosis 2 · 7.38/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
Thebais 16 · 2.56/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Parca — Lewis & Short

Parca, ae, f.root plek-; cf. ple/kw, plokh/; Lat. plecto, plico,

I one of the goddesses of Fate, whose Latin names are Nona, Decuma, and Morta, Caesell. Vindex ap. Gell. 3, 16, 11 (their Greek names are Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, Hyg. Fab. 171).—In sing.: Parca non mendax, Hor. C. 2, 16, 39: tenax veri, Pers. 5, 48: dura, Ov. P. 4, 15, 36.—Plur., the Fates: Parcae, Hesperides, etc.: quos omnes Erebo et Nocte natos ferunt, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44: Parcae fatalia nentes Stamina non ulli dissoluenda deo, Tib. 1, 7, 1: immites, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 13. iniquae, Hor. C. 2, 6, 9: veraces, id. C. S. 25: sic placitum Parcis, id. C. 2, 17, 16; Lact. 2, 10, 20; Verg. E. 4, 47; Juv. 12, 64.

2. Parca — Walde–Hofmann

Parca, -ae f. „Parze, Schicksalsgöttin® (seit Varro): ursprgl. „Geburtsgöttin“, zu pariö (Varro frg. Gell. 3, 16, 10), Gdf. *par(i)ca * 252 parco — püreó. die Gebürende* (Stolz ALL. 10, 162 A, Wissowa Rel.* 264, Güntert Kal. 546. 259 [mit unrichtiger Heranziehung von av. pairikä-, s. paelex). Altere unannehnibare Deutungen: zu parcó.,2ls die das Leben schonende“ (Breal-Bailly 247); Georges (*partica ,Zuteilerin" … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Parca, p. 1157]

In the wild

Parcae Statius, Thebais 8.439
Parcis Ovid, Fasti 6.795
Parcis Statius, Silvae 2.1.148
Parcae Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.6
Parcas Propertius, Elegiae 4.11.13
Parcae Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.383

6 of 75 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Parca (scan p. 506; entry #8226).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Parca (scan pp. 1157-1161; entry #1959). Root candidates: *parda-, *pars-, *cae-.

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