1. lens — Lewis & Short
lens, dis, f.,
I a louse's egg, a nit:
lendes tolluntur adipe canino,Plin. 29, 6, 35, § 111; Ser. Samm. 5, 72.
The corpus record — Latin
lens2
lens2 · f
a louse's egg, a nit
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Where it lives
- Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
- Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
2. lens — Lewis & Short
lens, tis (
nom. lentis, acc. to Prisc. p. 764 P.—I Acc. lentim, Cato, R. R. 35; 116; Varr. ap. Charis. p. 101 P.:
lentem,Col. 2, 10, 15.—Abl. lenti, Titin. ap. Non. 210, 5.— Plur. lentes, Scrib. Comp. 114), f. (masc., Titin. ap. Non. 210, 5), a lentil:
lens amat solum tenue,Plin. 18, 12, 31, § 123:
Pelusiaca (Egyptian lentils were considered the best),Verg. G. 1, 228; cf. Mart. 13, 9, 1; Gell. 17, 8, 2.
In the wild
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. léns (scan p. 375; entry #5928).
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