The corpus record — Latin

hălōs

hălōs · f

a circle round the sun

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What it meant

hălōs — Lewis & Short

hălōs, ō, f., = a(/lws (a round threshing-floor),

I a circle round the sun or moon, a halo, pure Lat. corona: circa solem visum coloris varii circulum, qualis esse in arcu solet. Hunc Graeci halo vocant: nos dicere coronam aptissime possumus, etc., Sen. Q. N. 1, 2, 1.—Called also hălўsis (prob. corrupted from a(/lws), App. de Mundo, p. 64, 16.

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.