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glacies

ice

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 3 · 1.93/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Tristia 4 · 1.75/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Ex Ponto 3 · 1.45/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. glacies — de Vaan

glacies 'ice' [f. e] (Varro+) Derivatives: conglaciare 'to freeze' (Cic.+). The meaning is the same as that of gelus, but glacies cannot be derived from a root *g/- 'to be cold' in any meaningful way. Bibl.: WH I: 603, EM 275, IEW 366. -> gelus — [de Vaan, s.v. glacies, p. 277]

2. glăcĭes — Lewis & Short

glăcĭes, ēi, f.root in Gr. ga/la, galakt-; cf. glaga/w, to be milky, etc.; Germ. Gletscher; v. gelu,

I ice (cf.; gelu, pruina).

I Lit.: sol glaciem dissolvit, Lucr. 6, 963; so ib. 878: ne teneras glacies secet aspera plantas, Verg. E. 10, 49; Hor. C. 2, 9, 5; Ov. M. 2, 808; 13, 795; Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 103: lubrica, slippery ice, Liv. 21, 36, 7: Maeotica, Juv. 4, 42 et saep.—In plur.: glacies, Verg. G. 4, 517: glacierum, Sid. Ep. 4, 6 fin.; Vulg. Dan. 3, 70.—*

II Transf., hardness: tum glacies aeris flamma devicta liquescit, Lucr. 1, 493.

In the wild

glacie Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.2.p3
glacie Ovid, Tristia 3.12.29
glacie Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 28.25
glacie Silius Italicus, Punica 4.741
glacie Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.348
glacie Ovid, Tristia 3.10.37

6 of 49 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. glacies (scan p. 277; entry #694).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. glaciés (scan p. 299; entry #4696).

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