The corpus record — Latin

filix

fern

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. fĭlix — Lewis & Short

fĭlix (felix, Paul. ex

Fest. p. 86 Müll.

I N. cr.), ĭcis, f., fern, pte/ris.

I Lit., Plin. 27, 9, 55, § 78; 17, 4, 3, § 29; Verg. G. 2, 189; 3, 297; Hor. S. 1, 3, 37; Col. 2, 2, 13.—

II Transf., the hair of the pubes, Pers. 4, 41.

2. filix — Walde–Hofmann

filix (-ex) und felix (wohl ursprüngl Form, volksetym. mit felix yerhunden): -icis f. „Farnkraut“ (seit Verg., rom. [neben filica GL, Wartburg IIl 515; wohl Rückbildung aus filicula wie auca [s. d.] aus avicula, Niedermann briefl.], ebenso Demin. filieula (fei-) ds. seit Cato [Alieieula Marc. med., Gl.| filietum [fel-, Svennung Unters. 124; vgl. cárectum. usw.] ,Farnkrautbestand* seit Colum. und *filicäria ds.; vgl. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. filix, p. 529]

In the wild

filix Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.3.37
filice Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.6.p6
filicibus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.3.8
filicem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.14.6
filicem Vergil, Georgicon 2.189
filicis Ausonius, Epistularum 33.2

6 of 12 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. filix (scan p. 258; entry #4023).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. filix (scan pp. 529-534; entry #1125). Root candidates: *fili-, *dhugst-, *dhuens-.

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