The corpus record — Latin

Zama

Zama · f

A small town in Numidia

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Hannibal 2 · 9.78/10k
De Bello Africo 7 · 5.38/10k
Jugurtha 5 · 2.36/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 2 · 1.48/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Zăma — Lewis & Short

Zăma, ae, f., = *za/ma.

I A small town in Numidia (now Zamra), celebrated for the victory gained there by Scipio over Hannibal, Liv. 30, 29; Sil. 3, 261 al.—

II Another town in Numidia, also, with the addition regia, the residence of Juba, now Jama, Sall. J. 57 sq.; Auct. B. Afr. 91; Inscr. Grut. 364, 1.—Hence, Zămensis, e, adj., of or belonging to Zama: oppidum, i. e. Zama, Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 30 (al. Ziamensis). —As subst.: Zămenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Zama, Auct. B. Afr. 92.

In the wild

Zamam Sallust, Jugurtha 58
Zamam Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.30.29.1
Zama Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 p29
Zamam Sallust, Jugurtha 56.p2
Zamam Cornelius Nepos, Hannibal 6
Zamam Sallust, Jugurtha 56.p1

6 of 22 attestations shown.

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.