The corpus record — Latin

edulis

edulis · adj

eatable

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Where it lives

Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ĕdūlis — Lewis & Short

ĕdūlis, e, adj.1. edo,

I eatable (rare).

I Adj.: capreae, Hor. S. 2, 4, 43.—

II Subst., in the plur., edulia, ium, n., eatables, food (for syn. cf.: alimenta, cibus, cibaria, esca, penus, victus, opsonium, pulmentum, etc.), Afran. ap. Non. 28, 30; Varr. ap. Non. 108, 22; Suet. Calig. 40 Oud. N. cr.; Dig. 1, 16, 6 fin.; Gell. 7, 16, 4; 17, 11 fin.; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 84 Müll.—In the postclass. per., heterocl., gen. eduliorum, App. M. 5, p. 160; dat. eduliis, Gell. 19, 9, 3; nom. sing. edulium, Fulg. 565, 9; and perh. also Varr. L. L. 7, § 61 Müll. N. cr.; whence abl. edulio, Vulg. Gen. 25, 34; id. Lev. 7, 18.

In the wild

edulium Minucius Felix, Octavius 30.6
edulibus Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 27
edulium Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.16
edulium Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 12
edulium Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.16.4
edulibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.15

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