The corpus record — Latin

galeo

galeo · v. a

to cover with a helmet

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Where it lives

In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 1 · 0.81/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 1 · 0.68/10k
Adversus Marcionem 3 · 0.36/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 4 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

gălĕo — Lewis & Short

gălĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.galea,

I to cover with a helmet.

I Lit.: milites in campo jubet galeari, Auct. B. Afr. 12 fin.; Cinna ap. Non. 87, 28: et barbati quidem Jovis, galeatae Minervae, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 100: galeati et distincti centuriones, Front. S. 11, 1, 27.—Subst.: găleātus, i, m., a helmed warrior, Juv. 1, 169.—Plur., Vulg. 2 Macc. 5, 3.—

II Trop.: galeatus prologus, i. e. in which one defends himself, Hier. praef. S. Script.

In the wild

Gala Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.40.17.2
Galata Claudian, In Eutropium 1.59
Galata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.19
Gala Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.29.31.5
Galatae Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 27
Gala Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.24.49.1

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.