The corpus record — Latin

Helice

Helice · f

A kind of slender

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hĕlĭcē — Lewis & Short

hĕlĭcē, ēs, f., = e(li/kh (a winding).

I A kind of slender, flexible willow, Plin. 16, 37, 69, § 177.—

II As nom. propr.: Hĕlĭcē.

A The constellation of the Great Bear, Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66; Ov. F. 3, 108; Val. Fl. 1, 17.— Transf., the North, Grat. Cyneg. 55; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1539.—

B A maritime town of Achaia, swallowed up by the sea, Ov. M. 15, 293; Plin. 2, 92, 94, § 206; Sen. Q. N. 6, 23, 4.

In the wild

Helice Ovid, Fasti 4.580
helices Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.1.12.p1
Helice Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.105
Helice Lucan, Pharsalia 2.237
helicae Cicero, Timaeus 31
Helice Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.18

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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