The corpus record — Latin

ilex

ilex · f

a kind of oak

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Epodon 3 · 9.98/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Eclogues 3 · 6.61/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Georgicon 4 · 2.83/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Amores 3 · 1.92/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

īlex — Lewis & Short

īlex, ĭcis, f.,

I a kind of oak, the holmoak or great scarlet oak (cf. quercus, aesculus, robur), Quercus ilex, Linn.; Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 19; 16, 8, 12, § 32; 16, 18, 30, § 73; Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 194 Vahl.); Verg. E. 7, 1; id. A. 12, 702; Hor. C. 3, 13, 14; Ov. M. 1, 112; 8, 237: arbor felix, Macr. S. 3, 20, 2 et saep.—Poet.: porcus ilice pastus, i. e. with acorns, Mart. 14, 70, 2.

In the wild

6 of 108 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ilex (scan p. 332; entry #5247).

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