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illuvies

dirtiness, filth

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Where it lives

Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 2 · 1.29/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. illuvies — de Vaan

illuvies 'dirtiness, filth' (P1-+), interluere 'to flow between; wash during' (P1.+), malluviae [f.pl.] 'water in which the hands have been washed' (Fest,, Paul, ex F.), pelluviae [f.pl-] 'water in which the fe^t are washed' (Fest., Paul, ex F.), polWbmm 'wash-basin' (Andr.+), proluere 'to wash away, wash clean' (PL+),proluvies 'flood' (Lucr.+). Pit. pr. *lowa-, intnpr. *lowa-e-. It. cognates: U. vutu [3s.ipv.II], … — [de Vaan, s.v. illuvies, p. 345]

2. illŭvĭes — Lewis & Short

illŭvĭes (inl-), ēi, f.in-luo.

I Dirt, filth, uncleanness of the body (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: alluvies, diluvies, colluvies, proluvies; squalor, sordes, paedor): hic cruciatur fame, frigore, illuvie, imbalnitie, imperfundie, incuria, Lucil. ap. Non. 126, 2; 125, 31; Varr. ib. 34; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 54: pectus illuvie scabrum, Cic. poët. Tusc. 3, 12, 26: illuvie ac squalore obsitus, Tac. A. 4, 28: illuvie deformis, id. H. 4, 46: morbo illuvieque peresa vellera, Verg. G. 3, 561: oris, Dig. 21, 1, 12.—As a term of reproach: di te perdant ... oboluisti allium, Germana illuvies, hircus, hara suis, you perfect beast, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 39. —

II An overflowing, inundation (postclass.): aquarum, Just. 2, 1, 6; 2, 6, 10: placida, i. e. the water that has overflowed, Tac. A. 12, 51: imber campos lubricos fecerat, gravesque currus illuvie haerebant, in the mud, Curt. 8, 14, 4.

In the wild

inluuie Silius Italicus, Punica 3.541
inluvie Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.14.4
inluuie Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 p39
inluvies Plautus, Mostellaria 1.1
inluvie Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.21.39.2
inluvie Tacitus, Historiae 4.48

6 of 24 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. illuvies (scan p. 345; entry #884). Root candidates: *lowa-, *huatro-, *lawa-.

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