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vesica

bladder

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Where it lives

De Medicina 55 · 5.37/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 119 · 3/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vesica — de Vaan

vesica 'bladder' [f. a\ (P1.+) Derivatives: ve(n)slcula 'small bubble' (Lucr.+). Andre 1984 argues, to my mind convincingly, that the original form was vesica, which is sometimes spelled venslca because the sequences -es~ and -ens- started to merge in VLat Andre compares the fact that the 'bladder' is often referred to using words for 'to blow, inflate' in different languages, e.g. in Germanic (NHG Blase, En. … — [de Vaan, s.v. vesica, p. 683]

2. vēsīca — Lewis & Short

vēsīca (in MSS. often vensīca or vessīca), ae, f.,

I the bladder in the body of animals, the urinary bladder.

I Lit., Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 18; Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 96; Plin. 30, 8, 21, § 65; Hor. S. 1, 8, 46; Petr. 27; App. M. 1, p. 108, 30.—

II Transf.

A Any thing made of bladder, e. g. a purse, cap, lantern, foot-ball, etc., Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 2; Ov. M. 15, 304; Mart. 8, 33, 19; 8, 14, 62: faciem laxis vesicis inligant, as a kind of mask to exclude poisonous particles, Plin. 33, 7, 40, § 122; Sen. Q. N. 2, 27, 2; Cels. 3, 21; 3, 27, 2.—

B A bladder-like tumor, blister, Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 51.—

C = pudendum muliebre, Juv. 1, 39; 6, 64.—

III Trop., inflation of language, bombast, = tumor, Mart. 4, 49, 7.

In the wild

vesicae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.23.p5
vesicis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.6.p1
vesicae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.19.p7
vesicae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.15.p2
vesica Juvenal, Saturae 1.1.39
vesicae Celsus, De Medicina 2.7.p1

6 of 202 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. vesica (scan p. 683; entry #1964).

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