The corpus record — Latin

temetum

temetum · n

any intoxicating drink

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Where it lives

Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 1 · 0.66/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

tēmētum — Lewis & Short

tēmētum, i, n.a lengthened form from root tam-; Sanscr tām-yati, to be stupefied; whence abstemius, temulentus,

I any intoxicating drink, mead, wine, etc. (mostly ante-class. and poet.; syn. merum): temeti nihil allatum intellego, Plaut. Aul. 2, 6, 6, Cato ap. Plin. 14, 13, 14, § 90; Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59; Varr. ap. Non. 5, 17; Pompon. ap. Fest. p. 364 Müll., Hor Ep. 2, 2, 163; Juv 15, 25; * Cic. Rep. 4, 6, 6 (Fragm. ap. Non. 15, 15); Gell. 10, 23, 1.—Jocosely: temeti timor, as a name for a parasite, Nov. ap. Fest. p. 364 Müll. (Com. Rel. v. 17 Rib.).

In the wild

temetum Juvenal, Saturae 5.15.25
temeti Plautus, Aulularia 2.6
temetum Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 p42
temetum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.10.42.7
temeti Horace, Epistulae 2.2.163
temeto Cicero, De Republica 4.6

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. témétum (scan pp. 703-704; entry #11685).

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