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Tarracina

Tarracina · f

a town in Latium

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Tarrăcīna — Lewis & Short

Tarrăcīna (less correctly Terr-), ae, f., = *tarrakina and *traxi/nh (cf. Trachas,

Ov. M. 15, 717; the first a in Tarracina inserted like the u in Alcumena, Aesculapius, etc.),
I a town in Latium, formerly called Anxur, now Terracina, Mel. 2, 4 fin.; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 59; Cic. Att. 7, 5, 3; id. de Or. 2, 59, 240; id. Fam. 7, 23, 3 al.—Also called Tarrăcīnae, ārum, Liv. 4, 59.—Hence, Tarrăcĭnensis (Terr-), e, adj., of or belonging to Tarracina, Tarracinian: Ceparius, Sall. C. 46, 3.—As subst.: Tarră-cĭnenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Tarracina, the Tarracinians, Tac. H. 4, 3.

In the wild

6 of 42 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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