The corpus record — Latin

flexuosus

flexuosus · adj

full of turns

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Res Gestae 8 · 0.63/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

flexŭōsus — Lewis & Short

flexŭōsus, a, um, adj.2. flexus,

I full of turns or windings, tortuous, flexuous, crooked, winding.

I Lit.: flexuosum iter habet auditus, ne quid intrare possit, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144: Taurus mons, Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98: volatus hirundini, id. 10, 24, 35, § 73.—Sup.: intestina flexuosissimis orbibus, Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 200.—*

II Trop.: fraudes, Prud. Cath. 6, 143.—* Adv.: flexu-ōse, tortuously: si flexuose volitet flamma, Plin. 18, 35, 84, § 357.

In the wild

flexuose Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.35.p8
flexuosos Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.86
flexuosus Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.6.36
flexuosa Celsus, De Medicina 1.2.p4
flexuoso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.20
flexuosi Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.15.30

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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