The corpus record — Latin

talpa

mole

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Where it lives

Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Naturalis Historia 14 · 0.35/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. talpa — de Vaan

talpa 'mole' [f. a] (Varro+) No etymology. Bibl: WH 11:644, EM 675. — [de Vaan, s.v. talpa, p. 619]

2. talpa — Lewis & Short

talpa, ae, f. (

I masc., Verg. G. 1, 183) [root scalp-; Gr. ska/loy; cf. Lat.: scalpo, scalprum], a mole, Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 81; Plin. 9, 7, 6, § 17; 10, 69, 88, § 191; 30, 5, 12, § 38; Sen. Q. N. 3, 16, 5; Isid. Orig. 12, 3.

3. talpa — Walde–Hofmann

talpa, -ae m. „Maulwurf“ (seit Varro und Verg. [spätl. seit Pallad. „Maus“, Hehn Kulturpfl.® 470. 473]; später f. seit Plin., wonach taipus in Cl. und bei Fredegar hinzugebildet, rom. (italien. topo), s. Schulze KZ. 40, 406* (= KI. Schr. 65!], zalpinus, -a, -um Cassiod., talpiniola : dracóntea Gl.; vgl. EN. Talpönius, Zimmermann ALL. 13, 490): nach Bertoldi BSL. 32, 150 ff. identisch mit *darböne (s. darpus oben … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. talpa, p. 1552]

In the wild

talpa Martial, Epigrammata 11.18.14
talpam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.11.1
talpae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.58
talpas Tertullian, De Anima 32
talpae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.10.p2
talpis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.33.3

6 of 22 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. talpa (scan p. 619; entry #1760).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. talpa (scan p. 699; entry #11617).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. talpa (scan pp. 1552-1553; entry #2922). Root candidates: *täl-.

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