The corpus record — Latin

rauca

rauca · f

a species of worm that breeds in oak-roots

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Where it lives

Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

rauca — Lewis & Short

rauca, ae, f.,

I a species of worm that breeds in oak-roots, Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 130; Dig. 19, 2, 15, § 2.

In the wild

raucam Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.74
raucae Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.751
raucae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.18.p3
raucam Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 5.p1
raucae Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.315
raucas Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.685

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.