The corpus record — Latin

lacteus

lacteus · adj

Of milk, milky; full of milk

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Where it lives

Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lactĕus — Lewis & Short

lactĕus, a, um, adj.lac.

I Of milk, milky; full of milk (mostly poet.).

A Lit.: umor, Ov. M. 15, 79: ubera, Verg. G. 2, 525.—

B In partic., milk-drinking, sucking: vernae, Mart. 3, 58, 22: porcus, id. 3, 47, 12.—

II Transf., milk-white, milkcolored, milky: colla, Verg. A. 8, 660: cervix, id. ib. 10, 137: gemma, Mart. 8, 45, 2: circulus, the Gr. galaci/as ku/klos, the Milky Way, Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16; also, via, Ov. M. 1, 168.—

B Illa Livi lactea ubertas, pure, Quint. 10, 1, 32.

In the wild

lacteus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p20
lacteum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.1.p5
lacteus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.258
lactea Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.169
lactei Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.16.p3
lactei Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.25.p2

6 of 55 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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