The corpus record — Latin

gladiolus

gladiolus · m

A small sword

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Where it lives

Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

glădĭŏlus — Lewis & Short

glădĭŏlus, i, m.dim.gladius.

I A small sword: lingulam veteres dixere gladiolum oblongum, in speciem linguae factum, Gell. 10, 25, 3: gladiolo solito cinctus, App. M. 2, p. 122; 3, p. 131.—In plur. heterocl. glădĭŏla: nec gladiola (quisquam ferat), atqui Messala dixit, Quint. 1, 6, 42 (cf. gladius init.).—

B Glădĭŏlus, i, title of a comedy by Livius Andronicus, Fest. s. v. pedibus, p. 210 b. Müll.—

II The sword-lily, Plin. 21, 11, 38, § 65; 21, 17, 67, § 107 sq.; al. Pall. 1, 37.

In the wild

gladiolus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.11.p4
gladiolo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.18
gladiolum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.17.p9
gladiolum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.25.3
gladiolis Historia Augusta, Clodius Albinus 8
gladiolus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.21.p52

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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