The corpus record — Latin

pelta

pelta · f

a small

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Where it lives

Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pelta — Lewis & Short

pelta, ae, f., = pe/lth,

I a small, light shield in the shape of a half-moon, originally used by the Thracians and other barbarous people, Liv. 28, 5, 11; Verg. A. 1, 490; 7, 743; Ov. P. 3, 1, 96; Sil. 2, 80; Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23; Sen. Hip. 402; Vulg. 2 Par. 23, 9.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pelta (scan p. 518; entry #8474).

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