The corpus record — Latin

lactuca

lactuca · f

Lettuce

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
De Re Coquinaria 4 · 2.55/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
De Medicina 13 · 1.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 43 · 1.08/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lactūca — Lewis & Short

lactūca, ae, f.lac.

I Lettuce, Plin. 19, 8, 38, § 125 sqq.; Col. 10, 179; 11, 3, 25 sq.; Verg. M. 76; Cels. 2, 32; Mart. 13, 14, 1; several species are described by Plin. H. N. 20, 7, 24, § 58 sqq.—

II Lactuca marina, the plant wolf's-milk, Cels. 5, 7; Col. 6, 15, 2.

In the wild

lactucae Celsus, De Medicina 4.16
lactucis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.7.p2
lactuca Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.20.p26
lactucae Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.32
lactuca Martial, Epigrammata 13.53.1
lactucas Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 12

6 of 82 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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