The corpus record — Latin

pertica

long straight shoot of a tree, rod, wand

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
De agri cultura 5 · 3.2/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 18 · 2.29/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k

Senses

1. pertica — de Vaan

long straight shoot of a tree, rod, wand

2. pertĭca — Lewis & Short

a pole

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan pp. 475-476; entry #1313 Review: Under source audit
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 524; entry #8568 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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