Abbreviations
Ernout-Meillet –Ernout A., Meillet A., Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine. Histoire des mots, Paris 1939.
Fasti Capitolini – Fasti Capitolini, ed. A. Degrassi, Torino 1954.
OLD – Oxford Latin Dictionary, ed. P.G.W. Glar e, Oxford 2016.
RE – Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, eds. A. Pauly, G. Wissowa, W. Kroll, Stuttgart 1893.
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