The corpus record — Latin

Saetăbis

Saetăbis · f

a town of

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What it meant

Saetăbis — Lewis & Short

Saetăbis (Sēt-), is, f.,

I a town of Hispania Tarraconensis, celebrated for its flax (now Jativa), Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 9; Sil. 3, 374; Mel. 2, 6.—Hence,

A Saetăbĭtāni (Sēt-), ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Sœtabis, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 25.—

B Saetăbus (Sēt-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sœtabis: sudaria, Cat. 12, 14.

Where it came from

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

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