The corpus record — Latin

Letus

Letus · m

a mountain in Liguria

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 3 · 3.95/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Aeneid 6 · 0.95/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Letus — Lewis & Short

Letus, i, m.,

I a mountain in Liguria, Liv. 41, 18; Val. Max. 1, 5.

1 †† leuca (leuga), ae, f. a Celtic word, whence the Fr. lieue, a Gallic mile of 1500 Roman paces, a league: *leu/kh me/tron ti *galaktiko/n, Hesych.: leuca finitur passibus mille quingentis, Isid. Orig. 15, 16: cum et Latini mille passus vocent, et Galli leucas, et Persae parasangas, et rastas universa Germania, Hier. in Joel, 3, 18: exinde non millenis passibus sed leugis itinera metiuntur, Amm. 15, 11, 17: quarta leuga signabatur et decima, id est unum et viginti millia passuum, id. 16, 12, 8; cf. also Inscr. Orell. 1018; 1019; 5063.

In the wild

6 of 29 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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