The corpus record — Latin

Geloni

Geloni · m

a Scythian people

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

Gĕlōni — Lewis & Short

Gĕlōni, ōrum, m., = *gelwnoi/,

I a Scythian people, on the Borysthenes, in the modern Ukraine, Mel. 2, 1, 13; Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88; Verg. G. 2, 115; id. A. 8, 725; Hor. C. 2, 9, 23; 2, 20, 19; 3, 4, 35.—In sing.: Gĕlō-nus, i, m., the Gelonian, collect., Verg. G. 3, 461.—

II Deriv.: Gĕlōnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Geloni, Gelonian: canes, Grat. Cyneg. 195.

In the wild

Gelonos Horace, Carmina 3.4
Gelonos Horace, Carmina 2.9
Gelonos Claudian, Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1.119
Gelonos Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 52.76
Gelonos Seneca, Oedipus 1
Gelonos Vergil, Aeneid 8.725

6 of 8 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.