The corpus record — Latin

Rhea1

Rhea1 · f

an old Italian name

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Where it lives

Achilleis 3 · 4.16/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

1. Rhēa — Lewis & Short

Rhēa, ae, f.,

I an old Italian name. Thus, Rhea Silvia, daughter of Numitor and mother of Romulus and Remus, Liv. 1, 3; Flor. 1, 1, 1; Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 174 (cf. Verg. A. 1, 276).—Hence comes the name of the fabled priestess Rhea in Verg. A. 7, 659.

2. Rhĕa — Lewis & Short

Rhĕa, ae, f., = *(re/a,

I another name for Cybele, Ov. F. 4, 201: Rhea, quae Latiis Ops, Aus. Idyll. 12 de Deis, 2.

In the wild

Rhea Vergil, Aeneid 7.659
Rhea Statius, Achilleis 1.588
Rheae Statius, Achilleis 1.387
Rheae Statius, Achilleis 1.828
Rhea Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.174
Rhea Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.1.1.1

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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