The corpus record — Latin

glans

glans · f

an acorn

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 2 · 3.3/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k
De Medicina 14 · 1.37/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

glans — Lewis & Short

glans, glandis, f.kindr. with ba/lanos,

I an acorn, and, in gen., any acorn-shaped fruit, beechnut, chestnut, etc.

I Lit.: bubus glandem prandio depromere, Plaut. Truc. 3, 1, 2; Cato, R. R. 54; 60; Col. 6, 3; Plin. 16, 5, 6, § 15 sq.; Lucr. 5, 1416; Cic. Or. 9, 31; Verg. G. 1, 148; Ov. M. 1, 106 et saep.: glandis appellatione omnis fructus continetur, ut Javolenus ait, Dig. 50, 16, 236.—

II Transf.

A An acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay which was hurled at the enemy, Lucr. 6, 179; 307; Caes. B. G. 5, 43, 1; 7, 81, 4; Sall. J. 57, 4; Liv. 38, 20, 1; ib. 21, 7; ib. 29, 6; Verg. A. 7, 686; Ov. M. 14, 826 al.—A leaden ball of this kind was found with the inscription ROMA FERI (i. e. O dea Roma, feri hostem!), Inscr. Orell. 4932.—

B The glans penis, Cels. 7, 25; cf. Mart. 12, 75, 3.

In the wild

glandem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.16.p13
glans Celsus, De Medicina 6.18.p2
glandem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.22
glandem Plautus, Rudens 5.2
glans Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.42.65.10
glandem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.6.p8

6 of 66 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. glans (scan p. 300; entry #4702).

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