The corpus record — Latin

elixus

elixus · adj

thoroughly boiled

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 47 · 29.96/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ē-lixus — Lewis & Short

ē-lixus, a, um, adj., lix,

I thoroughly boiled, boiled, seethed.

I Lit., Varr. ap. Non. 62, 14; Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 54; Hor. S. 2, 2, 74; Juv. 3, 294; 13, 85; cf. the punning use of the word, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 67; id. Most. 5, 1, 66.—

II Transf., qs. sodden, i. e., soaked, wet through: calcei, Varr. ap. Non. 48, 27: balneator, Mart. 3, 7: nates, i. e. quite flabby after the bath, Pers. 4, 40.

In the wild

elixos Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 3.108
elixum Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 8.335
elixum Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 8.337
elixis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.13.p1
elixum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.16.p1
elixos Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 3.106

6 of 65 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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