The corpus record — Latin

cassis1

cassis1 · f

a helmet

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Thebais 20 · 3.2/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Punica 21 · 2.75/10k
Carmina 4 · 1.78/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cassis — Lewis & Short

cassis, ĭdis (access. form cassĭda, ae, like chlamyda from chlamys, f.Etruscan, acc. to Isid. Orig. 18, 14, 1; cf. Müll. Etrusk. 1, p. 392; cf. Sanscr. khad, to cover, and Lat. castrum, casa,

Prop. 3 (4), 11, 15; Verg. A. 11, 775; cf. Prob. II. p. 1473 P. Lind.; Charis. p. 80 P.; Prisc. p. 698 ib. Also Paul. ex Fest. p. 48, instead of cassilam, the reading should be cassidam),

I a helmet, commonly of metal (as galea was of leather, Isid. Orig. 18, 14, 1; cf. Tac. G. 6), Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 100; Caes. B. G. 7, 45; Ov. M. 12, 89; 13, 107: fracta, Juv. 10, 134: caelata, id. 11, 103.—But also promiscuously for galea, Ov. M. 8, 25 (cf.: aerea galea, Verg. A. 5, 490).—

b Meton., war: sub casside sumere unguenta, Plin. 13, 3, 4, § 23: aetas patiens cassidis, Juv. 7, 33.

2. cassis — Lewis & Short

cassis, is, v. casses.

In the wild

cassidis Silius Italicus, Punica 10.236
casside Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 1.262
casside Claudian, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.194
casside Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.7.37
casside Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.524
cassidem Plautus, Trinummus 3.2

6 of 81 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cassis (scan p. 127; entry #1852).

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