caepa
Βέλτιόν ἐστι σῶμά γ' ἢ ψυχὴν νοσεῖν → It is better to be sick in respect to the body than in respect to the soul → Deterior animi morbus es quam corporis → Am Körper krank zu sein ist besser als an der Seel'
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
caepa: (also cēpa), ae, f., and equally freq. caepe (cēpe), is, n. (
I gen. caepis, Charis. p. 43 P., without voucher, but the assertion of the gram. Diom. p. 314 ib.; Prisc. p. 681 ib.; Phocae Ars, p. 1706 ib., and Serg. p. 1842 ib., that caepe is indecl., is also unsubstantiated, since the form of the gen. caepe cited by Prisc. l. l. from App. is the well-known later orthog. for caepae; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, 551; 1, 557 sq.; 1, 578; in plur. only caepae or cepae, ārum, f.; cf. Don. p. 1747 P.; Prisc. l. l.; Phoc. l. l.; Serg. l. l.; Rudd. I. p. 114, n. 36; a rare form cae-pitium, Arn. 5 init.) [etym. dub.; cf.: et capiti nomen debentia cepa, v. l. Verg. M. 74; but acc. to Charis. p. 43, from a nom. propr.], an onion; Gr. κρόμυον; cf. Plin. 19, 6, 32, § 101 sq.
(a) Caepa, ae, f., Naev. and Lucil. ap. Prisc. l. l.; Lucil. and Varr. ap. Non. p. 201, 8 sq.; Cels. 2, 21; 2, 22; Col. 10. 12, 3; 12, 10, 2; 12, 8, 1; Ov. F. 3, 340; Isid. Orig. 17, 10, 12; Petr. 58, 2; Plin. 19, 6, 32, §§ 101 and 106; Pall. 4, 10, 31.—
(b) Caepe, is, n., Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5, 5; Naev., Nov., and Varr. ap. Prisc. l. l.; Lucil. and Varr. ap. Non. p. 201, 1 sq.; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 21; Juv. 15, 9; Pers. 4, 31; Gell. 20, 8, 7.—
(g) Caepae, ārum, f., Col. 11, 3, 58; Plin. 19, 6, 32, § 107; 2, 7, 5, § 16; Mart. 3, 77, 5; 12, 32, 20; Pall. 3, 24, 3. Among the Egyptians considered a sacred plant, Plin. l. l.; Juv. 15, 9.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
cæpa¹⁴ (cēpa), æ, f., oignon : Col. Rust. 10, 123 || pl. cæpæ Plin. 19, 107, etc. || cæpe, n., usité seult au nom. et à l’acc. sing. : Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 21 ; Gell. 20, 8, 7. gén. cæpis Char. 59, 6.
