The corpus record — Latin

acclivis

acclivis · adj

up hill

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Where it lives

De bello Gallico 3 · 0.58/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ac-clīvis — Lewis & Short

ac-clīvis, e, also (but much less freq.) -vus, a, um, adj.ad + clivus,

I up hill, mounting upwards, ascending, steep: stadium, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 11: ea viae pars valde acclivis est, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 4; so, leniter acclivis aditus, Caes. B. G. 2, 29 al.: acclivus, Ov. M. 2, 19.

In the wild

acclivis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.16.4
acclivis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.13.8
acclivis Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 3.19.1
acclivis Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 7.19.1
acclivis Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.53
acclivis Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.1.4

6 of 8 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.