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theca

theca · f

that in which any thing is enclosed

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Where it lives

Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3 · 0.43/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. thēca — Lewis & Short

thēca, ae, f., = qh/kh,

I that in which any thing is enclosed, an envelope, hull, cover, case, sheath, etc. (syn. vagina): grani, Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 1: efferri sine thecis vasa, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 52; id. Att. 4, 7, 2; Quint. 6, 3, 61: calamaria, Suet. Claud. 35; Mart. 14, 19, 1; Amm. 28, 4, 13.

2. theca — Walde–Hofmann

theca, -ae f. „Kuppel, Behälter, Büchse, Deckel* (seit Petron, rom.): entl, aus gr. 9/jkm f. ds. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. theca, p. 1587]

In the wild

theca Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.28.p2
theca Martial, Epigrammata 9.pr.4
theca Petronius, Satyricon 39
thecis Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.52
theca Martial, Epigrammata 11.58.9
thecis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.4.13

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. theca (scan p. 1587; entry #2999).

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