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Taratalla

Taratalla

a humorous name of a cook

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Where it lives

What it meant

Tărătalla — Lewis & Short

Tărătalla,

I a humorous name of a cook, taken from Homer (Il. 1, 465): *mi/stullon t' a)/ra t' a)/lla: si tibi Mistyllus cocus, Aemiliane, vocatur, Dicetur quare non Taratalla mihi? Mart. 1, 51, 2.

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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.