The corpus record — Latin

fluidus

fluidus · adj

flowing

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 2 · 2.37/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8 · 0.67/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

flŭĭdus — Lewis & Short

flŭĭdus (access. form, flŭvĭdus, a, um, adj.fluo,

Lucr. 2, 452; 464 sq.; Sedul. Carm. 4, 186; Sen. Ep. 58, 24),

I flowing, fluid, moist (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic. or Caes.).

I Lit.: corpus, Lucr. 2, 452: quid tam contrarium est quam terrenum fluido? Col. 8, 16, 1: liquor, Verg. G. 3, 484: cruor, id. A. 3, 663; Ov. M. 4, 482; cf.: aspiciam fluidos humano sanguine rictus, id. ib. 14, 168: alvus, Ser. Samm. 29 fin.—

II Transf.

A In opposition to solid or firm, soft, slack, lax, languid (syn.: fluxus, languidus): lacerti, Ov. M. 15, 231; cf.: labor et aestus mollia et fluida Gallorum corpora decedere pugna coëgit, Liv. 34, 47, 5: caro, Plin. 9, 30, 50, § 95: vestis, flowing, loose, Just. 41, 2; Sen. Oed. 422.—*

B Act., dissolving: calor, Ov. M. 15, 362.

In the wild

fluvida Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.464
fluida Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 7.66.23
fluidus Vergil, Georgicon 3.484
fluidos Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.168
fluvidi Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.71.23
fluidam Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.9

6 of 30 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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