The corpus record — Latin

flexilis

flexilis · adj

Pliant

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

flexĭlis — Lewis & Short

flexĭlis, e, adj.flexus, from flecto.

I Pliant, pliable, flexile (poet. and in postAug. prose): cornu, Ov. M. 5, 383: ulmus et fraxinus, Plin. 16, 40, 79, § 219: betulla, id. 16, 18, 30, § 75: cervix ad circumspectum, id. 11, 37, 67, § 177: vitrum, id. 36, 26, 66, § 195: lectuli, Amm. 22, 4.—

II Bent, curved: spicae, App. M. 6 init. (Ov. Am. 1, 14, 26, read nexilis, Merk.).

In the wild

flexilia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.43.p1
flexilis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p28
flexilis Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.588
flexili Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.40.p2
flexiles Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.1
flexilibus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 16.80

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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