The corpus record — Latin

hedera

ivy

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Eclogues 4 · 8.81/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.01/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. hedera — de Vaan

hedera 'ivy' [f. a] (Lab.+) Derivatives: hederaceus 'of ivy' (Cato+). IEW and Meiser explain hedera from the root *ghed- 'to grab' of prae-hendo. Whereas IEW assumes a thematized s-stem *hedes~o-9 Leumann posits PIE *-er-o-. The connection with -hendd is suggested by the gloss Paul, ex F. 'quod edera vincit ad quodcumque se applicat\ but this is not enough evidence. Of course, ivy is a climbing (or ground-creeping) … — [de Vaan, s.v. hedera, p. 295]

2. hĕdĕra — Lewis & Short

hĕdĕra (ĕdĕra), ae, f.,

I ivy, Hedera helix, Linn.; sacred to Bacchus, and hence wound around the thyrsus; also made into garlands with which poets were crowned, Plin. 16, 34, 62, § 144; Ov. F. 3, 767; id. M. 5, 338; Varr. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 7, 25; Verg. ib. 7, 38; 8, 13; id. G. 2, 258; Hor. C. 1, 1, 29; 1, 25, 17; id. Ep. 1, 3, 25; Juv. 7, 29 al. —In plur., Verg. E. 4, 19; id. G. 4, 124 al.

In the wild

hederae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.7.p1
hederas Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 2.263
hederae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.34.p3
hedera Claudian, Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 4.19
hederis Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.128
hedera Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.10.p5

6 of 149 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. hedera (scan pp. 295-296; entry #752). Root candidates: *ghed-, *xelsVwo-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. hedera (scan p. 315; entry #4950).

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