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Thera

Thera · f

an island in the Ægean Sea

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Where it lives

What it meant

Thēra — Lewis & Short

Thēra, ae (Thērē, ēs), f., = *qh/ra,

I an island in the Ægean Sea, the chief of the Sporades, now Santorin, Mel. 2, 7, 11; Plin. 2, 87, 89, § 202; 4, 12, 23, § 70; Sen. Q. N. 6, 21, 1.—Hence, Thēraeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Thera: colonus, Tib. 4, 1, 139: cyperos, Plin. 21, 18, 70, § 117.—Plur. subst.: Thēraei, ōn, m., the Theræans, Sall. J. 19, 3.

In the wild

6 of 7 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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