The corpus record — Latin

Taprobane

Taprobane · f

an island in the Indian Ocean

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Where it lives

Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

Tāprŏbănē — Lewis & Short

Tāprŏbănē, ēs, f., = *taproba/nh,

I an island in the Indian Ocean, now Ceylon, Mel. 3, 7, 7; Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 81; Ov. P. 1, 5, 80; Avien. Perieg. 777.—Also written Tā-prŏbăna, App. de Mundo, p. 60, 16.

In the wild

Taprobane Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.35.p2
Taprobanen Ovid, Ex Ponto 1.5.80
Taprobanen Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.22.p1
Taprobane Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.22.p2
Taprobane Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.23.p1
Taprobane Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.6.p25

6 of 9 attestations shown.

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.