The corpus record — Latin

vappa

vappa · f

wine that has lost its spirit and flavor; palled

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Satyrarum libri 4 · 2.82/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

vappa — Lewis & Short

vappa, ae, f.kindr. with vapor; cf. vapidus,

I wine that has lost its spirit and flavor; palled, flat, vapid wine.

I Lit.: vitium musto quibusdam in locis iterum sponte fervere, quā calamitate deperit sapor vappaeque accipit nomen, probrosum etiam hominum, cum degeneravit animus, Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 125; Hor. S. 2, 3, 144; 1, 5, 16; Mart. 12, 48, 14.—

II Transf., masc., a spoiled or worthless fellow, a good-fornothing, Cat. 28, 5; Hor. S. 1, 1, 104; 1, 2, 12; Auct. Priap. 14; cf. Plin. l. l. supra.

In the wild

uappa Appendix Vergiliana, Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 11
vappae Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.2.12
vappamque Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.3.144
uappa Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.4.11
vappam Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.1.104
vappa Persius, Saturae 5.77

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.