The corpus record — Latin
dactylus
dactylus
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
- Orator 9 · 4.87/10k
- Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
- Institutio Oratoria 9 · 0.52/10k
- Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
- Naturalis Historia 12 · 0.3/10k
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
In the wild
- dactyli Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p66
- dactyloque Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.26
- Dactylique Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.2.1
- dactylum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.101
- dactylon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.19.p8
- dactylorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.9.p92
6 of 34 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. dactylus (scan p. 187; entry #2881).
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.