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sagitta

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Hamartigenia 3 · 4.69/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Carmina 6 · 4.51/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 5 · 4.44/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Aeneid 24 · 3.79/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k

Densest 12 of 91 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. sagitta — de Vaan

sagitta 'arrow' [f a] (Naev.+) Derivatives: Sagittarius 'archer' (Sis.+), sagittatus 'barbed' (PI.). No etymology. BibL: WH II: 464, EM 588. — [de Vaan, s.v. sagitta, p. 548]

2. săgitta — Lewis & Short

săgitta, ae, f.root sagh-; v. sagio.

I An arrow, shaft, bolt (freq. in prose and poetry; cf.: telum, jaculum): cum arcum mihi et pharetram et sagittas sumpsero, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99: confige sagittis fures thesaurarios, id. Aul. 2, 8, 25; Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89; id. N. D. 2, 50, 126 al.: missiles, Hor. C. 3, 6, 16: celeres, id. ib. 3, 20, 9 et saep.: sagittā Cupido cor meum transfixit, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 25; Lucr. 4, 1278; Tib. 2, 1, 81; Hor. C. 2, 8, 15; 1, 27, 12: sagittam conicere, Verg. A. 4, 69: nervo aptare sagittas, id. ib. 10, 131; Ov. M. 8, 380: savii sagittis per cussus est, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 16 (but the better reading is: ejus saviis perculsus).—

II Meton., of things of a like form.

A The extreme thin part of a vine-branch or shoot, Col. 3, 10, 22; 3, 17, 2; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 156. —

B The herb arrow-head, Plin. 21, 17, 68, § 111.—

C In late Lat., an instrument for letting blood, a lancet, Veg. 1, 22, 4; 1, 25, 5; 1, 43, 3, etc.—

D Sagitta, a constellation, the Arrow, Hyg. Astr. 2, 15; 3, 14; Cic. Arat. 382; Col. 11, 2, 21; Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 131; 18, 31, 74, § 309.

3. sagitta — Walde–Hofmann

sagitta (-t, z. B. Chiron 7, inschr. Sagita, Zoyfra, sagitärius, Graur Cons. gem. 201), -ae f. (seit Plaut. (ságítta mit IK.], rom. ebenso sagittula „kleiner Pfeil* seit Apul. (vlt. „Blitz*, Goldberger Gl. 20, 147] und sagittö, -äre „schieße mit Pfeilen* Curt.; vgl. sagittärius „zum Pfeil gehörig“, m. „Pfeilschmied, Bogenschütze* sext Cic., -ae f. „Pfeil; Pfeilkraut; Lanzette; junger Zweig am Weinstock; ein … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sagitta, p. 1370]

In the wild

sagittae Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p15
sagittam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.1.2
sagittae Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 26
sagitta Vergil, Aeneid 12.319
sagittae Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 54.7
sagittisque Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 19

6 of 324 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. sagitta (scan p. 548; entry #1527).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Sagitta (scan p. 612; entry #10036).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sagitta (scan p. 1370; entry #2372). Root candidates: *seg-.

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