The corpus record — Latin

pergula

pergula · f

A projection

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

pergŭla — Lewis & Short

pergŭla, ae, f.pergo; cf. tegula, from tego.

1 A projection or shed in front of a house, used as a booth, stall, shop; of an exchanger, Plin. 21, 3, 6, § 8; of a paintingroom, studio, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 84; Lucil. ap. Lact. 1, 22.—

2 A shop, Dig. 5, 1, 19.—

3 A school, a lecture-room: mathematici pergula, Suet. Aug. 94: in pergulā docuit, id. Gram. 18: pergulae magistrales, Vop. Sat. 10 fin.—Transf.: cui cedere debeat omnis Pergula, the whole school, all the scholars, Juv. 11, 137.—

4 A brothel, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 79; Prop. 5, 5, 70.—

5 A vine-arbor, Col. 4, 21; 11, 2: umbrosae, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 11.—

6 A hut, hovel (opp. aedes): in pergulā natus, Petr. 74; Aus. Ep. 4, 6.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pergula (scan p. 522; entry #8542).

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