lēus — Lewis & Short
lēus, a, um, adj., = lei=os,
I smooth:
brassica lea,Plin. 20, 9, 33, § 79.
The corpus record — Latin
leus
leus · adj
smooth
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
- Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
- Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
- Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
- Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
- Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
- Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
- Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
- Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Lei Martial, Epigrammata 5.14.11
- Lei Martial, Epigrammata 5.8.12
- leis Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.34.9.6
- leis Petronius, Satyricon 48
- Lei Martial, Epigrammata 5.25.2
- leis Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 12
6 of 12 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. leus (scan p. 728; entry #12126).
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