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later

later · m

a brick, tile

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
De Architectura 26 · 4.51/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 2 · 3.63/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 3 · 2.88/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 3 · 2.37/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 2 · 2.37/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 16 · 2.03/10k
De Bello Civili 6 · 1.86/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 3 · 1.77/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lăter — Lewis & Short

lăter, ĕris, m.Sanscr. root prath-, widen; prathas, breadth; Gr. platu/s, pla/tos,

I a brick, tile.

I Lit.: nil mirum, vetus est maceria, lateres si veteres ruunt, Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 49 sqq.: in latere aut in caemento, ex quibus urbs effecta est, Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98; cf.: paries crudo latere ac luto constructus, Col. 9, 1, 2: contabulationem summam lateribus lutoque constraverunt, Caes. B. C. 2, 9: lateres de terra ducere, to make, Vitr. 2, 3, 1: lateres coquere, to burn, id. 1, 5: sepimentum e lateribus coctilibus, burnt bricks, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 4.—Prov.: laterem lavare, to wash a brick, = pli/nqon plu/nein, i. e. to wash the color out of a brick, to labor in vain, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 8; but cf. Lucil. Sat. 9, 19.—

II Transf.: lateres aurei, argentei, bars, ingots, or wedges of gold, of silver, Plin. 33, 3, 17, § 56; Varr. ap. Non. 131, 15; 520, 17.

2. later — Walde–Hofmann

later, -eris m. „Ziegel, Ziegelstein; auch „Gold-, Silberbarren* (seit Plaut, rom., ebenso /afericius „aus Ziegelsteinen verfertigt“ (rom. auf /etus „Seite“ bezogen; nach caementicius, Leumann Gl. 9, 166. IF. 45, 112; laterculus, -3 m. „Ziegelstein; Backwerk, Plinse; Rechentisch“ seit Cato [-um n. „Verzeichnis aller Ämter des Landes" seit Tert., -énsis Cod. Iust.], laterárius „zu Ziegeln gehórig", Subst. m. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. later, p. 801]

In the wild

lateribus Tacitus, Historiae 2.27
lateribus Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.17.5
lateribus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.10
lateribus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.69
lateribus Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 8.19.1
lateribus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.10.41

6 of 176 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. later (scan p. 367; entry #5789).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. later (scan p. 801; entry #1505). Root candidates: *pléi-, *pela-.

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