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boletus

boletus · m

the best kind of mushrooms

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 13 · 2.31/10k
De Re Coquinaria 3 · 1.91/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

1. bōlētus — Lewis & Short

bōlētus, i, m., = bwli/ths,

I the best kind of mushrooms, Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 92; Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 14; Mart. 1, 21; 14, 101; Juv. 14, 8; much valued by the Romans, Mart. 3, 60; 13, 48.—The emperor Claudius is said to have been poisoned by them, Plin. l. l.: Tac. A. 12, 67 dub.; Suet. Claud. 44; Juv. 5, 147.

2. boletus — Walde–Hofmann

boletus, -; m. ,Pilz, speziell Champignon* (seit Sen., rom.): unsicherer Herkunft. Kaum nach Thurneysen Thes. entlehnt aus pr. BwAttns m. „Pilz“ (auch , Wurzelknolle der lychnis", s. Plin. 21, 171), dies vl. Ableit, von ßWAog ,Klumpen*, da dabei die Suffixumbildung unklar bleibt. Niedermann IA. 29, 31 f. hält umgekehrt das griech. Wort (wie sicher die Ableitungen fiuAnrivoc, BwAntdpia) für entlehnt aus dem lat. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. boletus, p. 142]

In the wild

boletis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p16
boletos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.8.p1
boleti Martial, Epigrammata 3.60.5
boletos Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.95.24
boletorumque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.5.p4
boletos Martial, Epigrammata 3.45.6

6 of 36 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. boletus (scan pp. 142-143; entry #422).

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