haemorrhŏis — Lewis & Short
haemorrhŏis, ĭdis, f., = ai(morroi+/s,
I a kind of poisonous serpent, Plin. 23, 1, 23, § 43; 20, 20, 81, § 210; Luc. 9, 806.
The corpus record — Latin
haemorrhois
haemorrhois · f
a kind of poisonous serpent
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
- Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
- De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- haemorrhois Celsus, De Medicina 5.27.p8
- haemorrhoidi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.13.p5
- haemorrhoidum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.16.p1
- haemorrhoidi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p13
- haemorrhoidum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.20.p1
- Haemorrhois Lucan, Pharsalia 9.806
6 of 9 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.