The corpus record — Latin

virago

virago · f

a man-like

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vĭrāgo — Lewis & Short

vĭrāgo, ĭnis, f.virgo,

I a man-like, vigorous, heroic maiden, a female warrior, heroine, virago (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): virago aliqua ancilla, i. e. vigorous, stout, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 79: vos etenim juvenes animum geritis muliebrem, Illa virago viri, Poët. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61: virago Paluda, i. e. Minerva, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 37 Müll. (Ann. v. 510 Vahl.); so Ov. M. 2, 765; 6, 130; Stat. S. 4, 5, 23; id. Th. 11, 414; of Diana, Sen. Hippcl. 54; of Juturna, Verg. A. 12, 468; of an Amazon, Lact. 1, 9, 2; of Eve, Vulg. Gen. 2, 23.

Where it came from

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

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