The corpus record — Latin

villa

villa · f

a country-house

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Where it lives

Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Pro M. Tullio 6 · 17.46/10k
Verus 3 · 14.58/10k
Galba 3 · 10.88/10k
De agri cultura 17 · 10.87/10k
Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
Helvius Pertinax 2 · 7.69/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 8 · 7.61/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
Rudens 7 · 5.9/10k

Densest 12 of 106 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

villa — Lewis & Short

villa (rustic, vella, ae, f.dim.most prob. for vicula, from vicus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 4),

I a country-house, country-seat, farm, villa.

I In gen., Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 9; Col. 1, 6, 21; Cato, R. R. 4; Varr. R. R. 4, 4, 2; Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 5; Hor. C. 2, 3, 18; 3, 22, 5; id. Epod. 1, 29.—

II In partic.: Villa Publica, in the Campus Martius, as the gathering-place, rendezvous for recruits, and of the people for the census, etc., Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 4; Cic. Att. 4, 16, 14; Liv. 4, 22, 7; 34, 44, 5; Flor. 3, 21, 24.—As the residence of foreign ambassadors, Liv. 30, 21, 12; 33, 24, 5.—

B = vicus, a village, App. M. 8, p. 209, 4.

In the wild

villam Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1.12.1
villa Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.1.3
villa Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.16.8
villis Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.218
villis Cicero, In L. Catilinam 3.5
villam Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.10.1

6 of 510 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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