The corpus record — Latin

Temesa

Temesa · f

a town in the territory of the Bruttians

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 2 · 1.33/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

Tĕmĕsa — Lewis & Short

Tĕmĕsa, ae; Tĕmĕsē, ēs; and Tempsa (Temsa), ae, f., = *teme/sh or *te/mya,

I a town in the territory of the Bruttians, where there were copper mines, now Torre del Piano del Casale: Temesa, Mel. 2, 4, 9. Temese, Ov M. 15, 52; 15, 707; Stat. S. 1, 1, 42: Tempsa (Temsa), Plin. 3, 5, 10, § 72; Liv. 34, 45, 4. — Hence,

A Tĕmĕsae-us, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Temesa, Temesan: aera, Ov. M. 7, 207; id. F 5, 441; Stat. S. 1, 5, 47.—

B Tempsānus, a, um, adj., of Temesa: ager, Liv. 34, 45: incommodum, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39.

In the wild

6 of 8 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.