1. helvus — de Vaan
The corpus record — Latin
helvus
helvus
yellow, dun
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
- Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
- Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 5 · 4.69/10k
- Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
- Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 3 · 2/10k
- Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 3 · 1.77/10k
- Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 2 · 1.19/10k
- Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
- Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
- Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k
- Ab urbe condita 14 · 0.27/10k
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. helvus — Lewis & Short
helvus, a, um, adj.perh. a weakened form of gilvus, yellow,
color vaccarum,Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 9; cf.: color boum, qui est inter rufum et album, appellatur helvus, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. † helvacea, p. 99 Müll.
3. helvus — Walde–Hofmann
In the wild
- Helvius Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.38.23.4
- Helvius Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.34.10.3
- Helvorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.4.p2
- Helua Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 p11
- Helvius Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p15
- Helvius Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 1
6 of 36 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. helvus (scan p. 296; entry #753). Root candidates: *xeliwo-, *gholh3i-, *gelwa-.
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. heluus (scan p. 247; entry #3835).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. helvus (scan p. 671; entry #1306).
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