The corpus record — Latin

glis

glis · m

a dormouse

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

glis — Lewis & Short

glis, glīris, m.perh. kindred with gale/h,

I a dormouse: Sciurus glis, Linn.; Glis esculentus, Blumenb.; a delicacy with the Romans, Varr. R. R. 3, 15; Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 223 sq.; Mart. 13, 59; Apic. 8, 9; Petr. 31; Amm. 28, 4: in silva mea est glis nullus, Varr. ap. Charis. p. 69 and 106 P.: glirium examina, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 119, 26.

In the wild

glires Ausonius, Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1.5
glires Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.58
glires Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.1.p2
glires Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.6.p1
glires Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 8.408
glires Martial, Epigrammata 3.58.36

6 of 12 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. glis (scan p. 300; entry #4715).

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