The corpus record — Latin

vāra

vāra · f

A wooden horse

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What it meant

vāra — Lewis & Short

vāra, ae, f.

I A wooden horse or trestle for spreading nets upon; hence, prov.: sequitur varam vibia, one evil follows the other, Aus. Idyll. 12 praef. monos.—

II A forked pole for spreading nets upon, Luc. 4, 439; to support a bough, Col. 5, 9, 2.

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.