1. sălămandra — Lewis & Short
sălămandra, ae, f., = salama/ndra,
I a salamander, Plin. 10, 67, 86, § 188 sq.; 29, 4, 23, § 74; Mart. 2, 66, 7; Petr. 107 fin. al.
The corpus record — Latin
salamandra
salamandra · f
a salamander
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 21 · 0.53/10k
- De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
- Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
- De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
- Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
What it meant
2. salamandra — Walde–Hofmann
salamandra, -ae f. ,Salamander* (seit Cels.): Lw. aus gr. ooÀagdvó6pà ds. salämen: mopdgpoyov Gl.: unerkl. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. salamandra, p. 1373]
In the wild
- salamandra Celsus, De Medicina 5.7
- salamandris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.13
- salamandras Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.4.p3
- salamandrae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p13
- salamandras Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.4.p2
- salamandras Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.5.p3
6 of 26 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. salamandra (scan p. 614; entry #10063).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. salamandra (scan p. 1373; entry #2382).
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