The corpus record — Latin

same

An earlier name for the island of Cephalenia

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Where it lives

Heautontimorumenos 4 · 3.64/10k
Hecyra 2 · 2.22/10k
Phormio 2 · 1.84/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k

What it meant

Sămē — Lewis & Short

Sămē, ēs (collat. form Sămŏs, acc. to the Homeric *sa/mos,

Ov. M. 13, 711 Jahn and Bach

I N. cr.; Aus. Per. Odyss. 4), f., = *sa/mh.

I An earlier name for the island of Cephalenia, in the Ionian Sea, the mod. Cephalonia, Verg. A. 3, 271; Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 67; Sil. 15, 303; Liv. 26, 42 (acc. to Mel. 2, 7, 10, and Plin. 4, 12, 19, § 54, another neighboring island).—

II The principal town of the island of Cephalenia, Liv. 38, 29.—Hence, Sămaei, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Same, Liv. 38, 28 and 29.

In the wild

6 of 11 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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