The corpus record — Latin

versoria

versoria · f

a rope that guides a sail

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Where it lives

Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant

versōrĭa — Lewis & Short

versōrĭa (vors-), ae, f.verto,

I a rope that guides a sail, a sheet (Plautin.); hence, trop.: versoriam capere, to turn the sail, i. e. tack: cape vorsoriam, Recipe te ad erum, about ship! Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 19: cape modo vorsoriam, id. Merc. 5, 2, 34.

In the wild

vorsoriam Plautus, Mercator 5.2
vorsoriam Plautus, Trinummus 4.3

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uersoria (scan p. 749; entry #12518).

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