The corpus record — Latin

fossilis

fossilis · adj

dug out

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

fossĭlis — Lewis & Short

fossĭlis, e, adj.id.,

I dug out, dug up, fossil: sal, Varr. 2, 11, 6: harena, Plin. 36, 26, 66, § 192: ebur, id. 36, 18, 29, § 134: flumen, Amm. 24, 6.

Where it came from

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