hetta
From LSJ
ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος → Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
hetta: res minimi pretii, quasi hieta, id est hiatus hominis atque oscitatio. Alii pusulam dixerunt esse, quae in coquendo pane solet assurgere, a qua accipi rem nullius pretii, cum dicimus: Non hettae te facio, Paul. ex Fest. p. 99 Müll.
I N. cr. perhaps kindred with the Gr. ἥττων, ἥσσων, less, meaner; cf. the foll. art.].
