BLANDVS

Where it lives

• Controversiae 15 · 2.27/10k
• Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• BLANDVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.1.32
• BLANDVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.7.17
• BLANDVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.6.17
• BLANDVS Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 5.7
• BLANDVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.8.10
• BLANDVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.6.23

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

• de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. blandus (scan p. 87; entry #154).
• Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. blandus (scan p. 95; entry #1270).
• Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. blandus (scan pp. 140-141; entry #415). Root candidates: *mi-, *ghlàdh-, *ghlendh-.