The corpus record — Latin

latex

latex · m

a liquid, fluid

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 3 · 24.51/10k
In Rufinum 3 · 5.24/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 4 · 4.74/10k
Carmina 10 · 4.46/10k
Cathemerina 3 · 4.08/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
De Rerum Natura 15 · 3.08/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lătex — Lewis & Short

lătex, ĭcis, m. (f., Att. ap.

Prisc. p. 658 P.),

I a liquid, fluid (mostly poet.).—So esp. of water: latices simulatos fontis Averni, Verg. A. 4, 512: Lethaei ad fluminis undam Securos latices et longa oblivia potant, id. ib. 6, 715: desilit in latices, Ov. M. 4, 353: fontes laticis, id. P. 3, 1, 17: occulti latices, hidden springs, Liv. 44, 33, 2: latex aquae, Sol. 5, 16: laticum frugumque cupido, thirst and hunger, Lucr. 4, 1093.—Of wine: liquoris vitigeni, Lucr. 5, 15: Lyaeus, Verg. A. 1, 686: meri, Ov. M. 13, 653: vineus, Sol. 5, 16.—Of other liquids: absinthi, juice of wormwood, Lucr. 4, 16: Palladii, oil, Ov. M. 8, 274: nivei, milk, Prud. Cath. 3, 67.

In the wild

latices Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.509
laticem Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.251
latex Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 11.11
latices Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.379
latices Ausonius, Mosella pr.191
latice Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.19

6 of 104 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. latex (scan p. 367; entry #5792).

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