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rete

rete · n

a net

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Where it lives

Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Ars Amatoria 5 · 3.36/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Elegiae 3 · 2.43/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
Rudens 2 · 1.69/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rēte — Lewis & Short

rēte, is, n. (

abl. reti, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 27; id. Truc. 1, 1, 17;

I more freq. rete, id. Pers. 1, 2, 22; id. Rud. 4, 2, 9; 4, 3, 81; 4, 4, 124; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 8; 3, 11, 3; id. L. L. 5, 29, § 130 Müll.; Col. 8, 10, 1; Suet. Ner. 30; Ov. F. 5, 371; id. Hal. 22; Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81; Sen. Octav. 412 al.—Collat. form, acc. retem, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 45; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11; 14.— As fem.: tecta porticus sit rete cannabina, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11; cf. in plur.: in retes meas incidisti, Charis. p. 20 P.; cf. also Prisc. p. 659 ib.— But the masc., which Prisc. p. 759 P., and Charis. p. 45 ib., assume, is very doubtful.—Other collat. forms: rē-tĭum, di/ktuon, Gloss. Philox., and rētĭa, ae, f., Plaut. ap. Prisc. p. 759 P.; Schol. ad Juv. 8, 207) [for srēte, from sero], a net (cf.: plaga, casses, sagena): in piscinam rete qui jaculum parat ... dum huc dum illuc reti eos impedit Pisces, etc., Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 14 sq.: intra rete aves sunt omne genus, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 14: araneolae quasi rete texunt, ut, si quid inhaeserit, conficiant, Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123: retia ponere cervis, Verg. G. 1, 307; cf.: tendere cervis, Ov. M. 7, 701; so, tendere, id. ib. 4, 512; 8, 331; id. H. 5, 19 al.: ferre, id. M. 10, 171: ducere in retia pisces, id. ib. 13, 922: praetendere, pandere, Plin. 9, 8, 9, § 29: praetexere, id. 16, 1, 1, § 4: extrahere, Suet. Rhet. 1 al.—Prov.: quae nimis apparent retia, vitat avis, Ov. R. Am. 516.—

II Trop. (very rare, and perh. only poet.), a net, toil, snare: tum retia nexit, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 903 P.; cf.: rete nexisti nostro lecto, Prop. 3, 8 (4, 7), 37: retibus amoris exire (with nodos Veneris), Lucr. 4, 1147: qui albo rete aliena oppugnant bona, Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 22.

2. rete — Walde–Hofmann

rete, -is n. „Fisch-, Jagdnetz* (seit Plaut), r£te iaculum „Wurfnetz“, davon reteiaclärt Fronto (Hauler WSt. 34, 2531f., spätl. retiaeulum „Wurfnetz“, in dieser Form rom.): s. rarus (Fick I* 529). retrö s. unter re. retürö s. obtüro II 197. 432 reus — réx. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. rete, p. 1337]

In the wild

retia Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.45
retia Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.513
retibus Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 3.1.296
retia Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.171
retia Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.175
retia Vergil, Georgicon 1.307

6 of 101 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. rete (scan p. 596; entry #9766).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. rete (scan pp. 1337-1338; entry #2288).

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