The corpus record — Latin

rana

frog

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Where it lives

Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 4 · 3.65/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 69 · 1.74/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rana — de Vaan

rana 'frog' [f. a] (Varro+) Pit. *ra-na-7 Onomatopoeic form, probably from a sound "r

2. rāna — Lewis & Short

rāna, ae, f.for racna; cf.: ranco, racco, to roar, cry out; Germ. röcheln; Gr. lakei=n; v. Cors. Ausspr. 1, p. 636 sq..

I A frog, Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 172; Ov. M. 6, 381; 15, 375; Verg. G. 1, 378; 3, 431; Hor. S. 1, 5, 14: pluvias metuo, ranae enim r(htoreu/ousin, Cic. Att. 15, 16, b. — In partic., the tree-frog, green frog, Plin. 32, 8, 29, § 92; v. rubeta.— The entrails of frogs were used for charms, Juv. 3, 44.— Prov.: inflat se tamquam rana, Petr. 74, 13: qui fuit rana, nunc est rex, said of one who has risen from a lowly station, id. 74, 77 fin.—

II Transf.

1 Rana marina, a sea-fish, the frog-fish, fishing frog, angler: Lophius piscatorius, Linn.; Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125; called also simply rana, Plin. 9, 24, 40, § 78; and: rana piscatrix, id. 9, 42, 67, § 143.—

2 A push, or swelling on the tongue of beasts, Col. 6, 8, 1; Veg. 3, 3, 12.

In the wild

6 of 100 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. rana (scan p. 527; entry #1463).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. rana (scan p. 588; entry #9648).

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