The corpus record — Latin

helix

helix · f

A kind of ivy

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Where it lives

Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

hĕlix — Lewis & Short

hĕlix, ĭcis, f., = e(/lic (wound, twisted).

I A kind of ivy, Cic. Univ. 9, 27; Plin. 16, 34, 62, § 145 sqq.—

II A kind of willow, Plin. 16, 37, 69, § 177.—

III In archit., a whorl, a small ornament on the capital of Corinthian columns, Vitr. 4, 1, 12.

In the wild

helicem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.34.p3
helix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.34.p2
helicem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.37.p3
helix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.34.p3
Helix Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.570

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. helix (scan p. 315; entry #4956).

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