The corpus record — Latin

lactarius

lactarius · adj

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 3 · 5.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

lactārĭus — Lewis & Short

lactārĭus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to milk, containing milk, milky; made of milk or with milk.

I In gen.: lactaria columna in foro holitorio dicta, quod ibi infantes lacte alendos deferebant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 88: herba, milk-weed, Plin. 26, 8, 39, § 62: opus, food prepared with milk, Lampr. Heliog. 32: Mons, a hill in Campania, famous for its pasture, Cassiod. Var. 11, 10 init.—So, absol.: lactārĭum, ii, n., milkfood, Lampr. Heliog. 26.—lactārĭus, ii, m., a preparer of milk-food, Lampr. Heliog 27, 3.—Also, a seller of milk, = galaktopw/lhs, Gloss. Labb.—

II In partic., suckling, giving suck: boves, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 17.

In the wild

lactariam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p12
lactariis Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 27
lactario Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 32
lactarios Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 27

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.