1. sălăpitta — Lewis & Short
sălăpitta, ae, f.alapa,
I a box on the ear, Arn. 7, p. 329; v. Oehler ad h. 1.; and cf. salapitta, r(a/pisma, Gloss.
The corpus record — Latin
sălăpitta
sălăpitta · f
a box on the ear
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What it meant
2. salapitta — Walde–Hofmann
salapitta (Spätl.), sazpicta (Anon. mim.), -ae f. ,Ohrfeige" (seit Itala, rom.): aus gr. oakm(y)krric „schallende Ohrfeige, Trompeter“ (Goldberger Gl. 20, 110). Vgl. salapütium. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. salapitta, p. 1373]
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.