The corpus record — Latin

letalis

letalis · adj

deadly, fatal, mortal

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Res Gestae 10 · 0.78/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

lētālis — Lewis & Short

lētālis (lēthāl-), e, adj.id.,

I deadly, fatal, mortal (mostly poet. and late Lat.): vulnus, Verg. A. 9, 580; Suet. Caes. 82: harundo, Verg. A. 4, 73; ensis, Ov. M. 13, 392: serpens, Stat. Th. 6, 40: dapes, Val. Fl. 2, 155: hiems, Ov. M. 2, 827: venenum, Plin. 11. 35, 41, § 118: lac gustasse letale est, id. 11, 41, 96, § 236; Aug. Serm. 351, 5: ferrum, Juv. 15, 165.—In neutr., adverbially, in a deadly manner: letale minari, Stat. S. 4, 4, 84: letale furens, id. Th. 12, 760.—Plur. subst.: lētālĭa, ium, means of death, Liv. 8, 18, 7.—Hence, adv.: lētālĭter, in a deadly manner, mortally, Plin. 11, 37, 81, § 206: vulneratus, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 2, 7 prooem.

In the wild

letalia Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 3.3
letalia Ausonius, Mosella pr.260
letalia Statius, Thebais 11.535
letalia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.51
letaliter Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.5.8
letalesque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.5

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Where it came from

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