The corpus record — Latin

balatus

balatus · m

the bleating of sheep

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

bālātus — Lewis & Short

bālātus, ūs, m.balo,

I the bleating of sheep, Lucr. 2, 369: agni Balatum exercent, Verg. A. 9, 62; id. G. 3, 554; Ov. M. 7, 319; 7, 320; Stat. Th. 10, 46.—Also in plur., Ov. M. 7, 540.—Of the bleating of goats, Plin. 20, 14, 55, § 156; Aus. Epigr. 76, 3.

In the wild

balatibus Vergil, Aeneid 9.565
balatum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.14.p4
balatibus Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.222
balatum Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.320
balatum Vergil, Aeneid 9.62
balatibus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.263

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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