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Alanus

Alanus · adj

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ălānus — Lewis & Short

ălānus, a, um, adj.,

I of or pertaining to the Alani, = *)alanoi/, a very warlike Scythian nation upon the Tanais and Palus Mœotis: gens Alana, Claud. B. Get. 583.—Subst.: ălānus, i, m., one of the Alani, Luc. 10, 454.—Com. plur.: ălāni, ōrum, the Alani, Plin. 4, 12, 25, § 80; Sen. Thyest. 629; Luc. 8, 223; Val. Fl. 642.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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