The corpus record — Latin

ilia

worm1 (gloss CGL II 77.10). He reconstructs ilia as *elua-

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Where it lives

Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 3 · 13.72/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 2 · 11.75/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 8 · 11.47/10k
In Rufinum 6 · 10.47/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 2 · 9.3/10k
In Eutropium 5 · 6.96/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 5 · 6.59/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ilia — de Vaan

ilia 'worm1 (gloss CGL II 77.10). He reconstructs ilia as *elua- 'eel\ based on an imaginative comparison with Gr. έγχελυς 'eeP and Hit. Illuyankas 'mythical dragon' which is rightly rejected by Driessen 2005: 42f. Driessen suggests that the Plautine variant angulla is older, and contains *-TlIa 'worm* from *Tlela > *Tlla '(little) snaky creature'. Yet in this analysis, the origin of hypothetical *ί/ά- * snake' … — [de Vaan, s.v. ilia, p. 56]

2. ĭlĭa — Lewis & Short

ĭlĭa, ĭum, v. ile.

3. īlĭa — Lewis & Short

īlĭa, ae, f.,

I a poetical name of Rhea Silvia, daughter of Numitor and mother of Romulus and Remus, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 70 P. (Ann. v. 56 Vahl.); Verg. A. 1, 274; Ov. F. 2, 383; 598; Hor. C. 1, 2, 17; 3, 9, 8; 4, 8, 22.—

II Deriv.: īlĭădes, ae, m., son of Ilia.

A Adj.: Romulus Iliades Iliadesque Remus, Ov. Am. 3, 4, 40: pater, i. e. Romulus, id. F. 4, 23: fratres, i. e. Romulus and Remus, id. ib. 3, 62.—

B Subst., i. e. Romulus, Ov. M. 14, 781 and 824.

In the wild

ilia Cicero, Lucullus 135
ilia Tertullian, De Anima 8
ilia Celsus, De Medicina 7.18.p2
ilia Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.442
ilia Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 3.11.24
Iliam Tertullian, De Corona 12

6 of 175 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. ilia (scan p. 56; entry #58). Root candidates: *elua-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Ilia (scan p. 332; entry #5252).

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