The corpus record — Latin

fictilis

fictilis · adj

made of clay

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Where it lives

Epilogus 2 · 148.15/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
De agri cultura 5 · 3.2/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Saturae 5 · 2.01/10k
Naturalis Historia 74 · 1.87/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fictĭlis — Lewis & Short

fictĭlis, e, adj.fictus, from fingo,

I made of clay, earthen, fictile.

I Adj.: si id in ceris fingeretur aut fictilibus figuris, Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 71: Summanus, id. Div. 1, 10, 16: vasa, id. Att. 6, 1, 13: pocula, Tib. 1, 1, 39: dolia, Plin. 35, 12, 46, § 158: olla rudis fictilis, Varr. ap. Non. p. 223.—Jestingly applied to labelled wine-bottles: ibi tu videas litteratas fictiles epistolas, Pice signatas, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 14.—

II Subst.: fic-tĭle, is, and more freq. in plur., fictĭlĭa, ĭum, n.

A An earthen vessel: balsamum novo fictili conditur, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 116; 29, 6, 39, § 134: omnia fictilibus (ponuntur), Ov. M. 8, 670; Juv. 3, 168; 10, 26.—

B Earthen figures of deities: antefixa fictilia deorum Romanorum, Liv. 34, 4, 4; cf. Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 34; 35, 12, 45, § 157.

In the wild

fictile Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.7.p2
fictili Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p8
fictiles Plautus, Poenulus 4.2
fictilis Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 4.15.3
fictilibus Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 16.98.13.p1
fictilibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.13.p11

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