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parma

a small

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Where it lives

Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Thebais 16 · 2.56/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 3 · 1.75/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 3 · 1.68/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 2 · 1.55/10k
Punica 11 · 1.44/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 2 · 1.36/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. parma — Lewis & Short

parma (or in the collat. form pal-ma,

Tib. 1, 9, 82; and so many MSS. in Prop. 2, 19, 44 (3, 20, 8); 4 (5), 10, 40; Liv. 22, 1, 9), ae (old

I gen. parmaï, Lucr. 4, 847), f., = pa/rmh, a small, round shield, a target, carried by the light infantry and the cavalry.

I Lit.: configunt parmam, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 432 Vahl.); Varr. ap. Non. 552, 30: desiliunt ex equis, provolant in primum agmen et pro antesignanis parmas obiciunt, Liv. 2, 20; 2, 6, 9; 31, 35 fin.: hic miles (veles) tripedalem parmam habet, id. 38, 21 fin.; 26, 4; Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 554, 23: picta fulgebat, Prop. 4, 10, 21.—

II Transf.

A In gen., a shield (poet.): (Pallas) parmamque ferens hastamque trementem, Verg. A. 2, 175; 11, 693; Mart. 9, 21, 10.—

B A gladiator armed with a parma, a Threx (v. Threx) (poet.), Mart. 9, 69, 8.—

C The valve in a pair of bellows, Aus. Idyll. 10, 267.

2. Parma — Lewis & Short

Parma, ae, f.,

I the city of Parma, in Gallia Cispadana, between Cremona and Placentia, famed for its breed of sheep, Plin. 3, 15, 20, § 115; Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2; 10, 33, 4; Liv. 39, 55: velleribus primis Apulia, Parma secundis Nobilis, Mart. 14, 155, 1; cf. id. 2, 43, 4; 5, 13, 8.—Hence,

II Par-mensis, e, adj., of or belonging to Parma, Parman: Cassī Parmensis opuscula, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 3.—In plur.: Parmenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Parma, the Parmans, Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 8; Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, a.

In the wild

parmam Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 p25
parmae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.9.p2
parma Ausonius, Mosella pr.269
parmis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.37
parma Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.17
parmae Seneca, Agamemnon 1

6 of 116 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. parma (scan p. 508; entry #8280).

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