The corpus record — Latin

ursa

ursa · f

a she-bear

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Where it lives

Hercules Oetaeus 4 · 3.55/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Tristia 5 · 2.19/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Metamorphoses 10 · 1.87/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ursa — Lewis & Short

ursa, ae, f.ursus,

I a she-bear.

I Lit., Ov. M. 2, 485; 13, 803; 13, 836; 15, 379; id. F. 2, 181; Mart. 6, 25, 2.—

B Poet., a bear, in gen., Verg. A. 5, 37; Ov. M. 12, 319; 14, 255.—

II Transf.: Ursa, as a constellation, either Ursa Major, the Greater Bear, or Ursa Minor, the Lesser Bear, Ov. H. 18 (17), 152; id. Tr. 1, 4, 1; 3, 11, 8; 5, 3, 7; Val. Fl. 4, 724; Suet. Aug. 80.

In the wild

6 of 68 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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