The corpus record — Latin

dapsilis

sumptuous, bountiful, richly provided with every thing, abundant

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

dapsĭlis — Lewis & Short

dapsĭlis, e (

I abl. plur. dapsilis, Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 3), adj. dayilh/s, daps, sumptuous, bountiful, richly provided with every thing, abundant (mostly ante- and post-class.; in the class. period perhaps only in Colum. and Suet.): sumptus, Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 66: dotes, id. Aul. 2, 1, 45: corollae, id. Ps. 5, 1, 21: lectus, id. Truc. 1, 1, 34; lubentiae, id. Ps. 1, 4, 3: proventus (vitis), Col. 4, 27, 6: copia facundiae, App. M. 11, p. 258, 12.—

(b) With abl.: spionia dapsilis musto, Col. 3, 2, 27.—Advv., sumptuously, bountifully.

A Form dapsĭlĭter: d. suos amicos alit, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 178 P. (v. 39 Ribbeck).—

B Form dapsĭle: verrem sume dapsile ac dilucide, Pompon. ap. Non. 513, 27 (v. 161 Ribbeck): convivebatur, * Suet. Vesp. 19.—*

b Comp. invitavit se dapsilius, Lucil. ap. Non. 321, 29.

In the wild

dapsilis Plautus, Pseudolus 1.4
dapsili Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.27.6
dapsiles Plautus, Aulularia 2.1
dapsilem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.3
dapsile Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 19.1
dapsilis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.2.27

6 of 7 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. dapsilis (scan p. 188; entry #2904).

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