The corpus record — Latin

seria

seria · f

a cylindrical earthen vessel

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Where it lives

De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 3 · 9.71/10k
Parentalia 2 · 7.7/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
De agri cultura 6 · 3.84/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sērĭa — Lewis & Short

sērĭa, ae, f.,

I a cylindrical earthen vessel for preserving liquids, fruit, salted provisions, etc., a large jar: relevi omnia dolia, omnes serias, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 51; Cato, R. R. 12; Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 8; Col. 12, 52, 14; Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 9; Liv. 24, 10; Pers. 2, 11; Dig. 50, 16, 206.

In the wild

seriam Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 4.40.3
seria Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.51.10
seria Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.384O
seria Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.21.2
serias Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.24.10.8
seria Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.1.2

6 of 100 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. séria (scan p. 346; entry #5441).

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