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thermae

thermae · f

warm springs

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Where it lives

Divus Titus 2 · 13.44/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 2 · 9.79/10k
Tacitus 2 · 6.48/10k
Alexander Severus 5 · 4.68/10k
Divus Aurelianus 3 · 3.84/10k
Epigrammata 21 · 3.73/10k
Gordiani Tres 2 · 3.6/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Carmina 5 · 2.23/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k

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

What it meant

thermae — Lewis & Short

thermae, ārum, f. (sc. aquae), = qerma\ u(/data,

I warm springs, warm baths (natural or artificial; cf.: tepula aqua): Agrippae, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 62; 35, 4, 9, § 26; 36, 25, 64, § 189: Neronianae, Mart. 7, 34, 5; 12, 84, 5; cf. Sen. Ep. 122, 8.—

B = thermopolium, q. v. Juv. 8, 168.—

II As nom. prop.: Thermae, = *qe/rmai, a town in Sicily, near Himera, now Termini, Mel. 2, 7, 16; Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 90; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 85 sq.; Sil. 14, 232.—Hence, Thermitānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Thermæ, Thermitan: homo, of or from Thermæ, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 83.—In plur.: Thermi-tāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Thermæ, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 42, § 99.

In the wild

thermis Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.4.p1
thermis Martial, Epigrammata 2.14.13
thermis Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 10
thermis Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.42
thermis Martial, Epigrammata 12.70.8
thermisque Suetonius, Divus Titus 7.3.p2

6 of 56 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. thermae (scan p. 714; entry #11848).

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