The corpus record — Latin

lilium

lilium · n

a lily

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
Helius 3 · 20.92/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. līlĭum — Lewis & Short

līlĭum, ĭi, n.lei/rion,

I a lily: lilium rosae nobilitate promixum est, Plin. 21, 5, 11, § 22; 21, 19, 74, § 126; Varr. R. R. 1, 35; Pall. Febr. 21, 3: candida, Verg. A. 6, 709: lucida, Prop. 3, 11 (4, 12), 30: argentea, id. 4, 4, 23: hiantia, Ov. A. A. 2, 115: breve, short-lived, that blooms but for a short time, Hor. C. 1, 36, 16: rubens, = kri/non, a reddish kind of lily, Plin. 21, 5, 11, § 24.—

II Transf., a sort of defence, consisting of several rows of pits, in which stakes were planted, rising only four inches above the surface of the ground, Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 8.

2. lilium — Walde–Hofmann

lilium, -z n. „Lilie; lilienfórmige Verschanzung* (seit Varro, rom.; lilinus seit Serib. Larg. (auch Zirínus Plin. — Ac(piwoc], Ziliäceus Soran. [nach rosäceus], liliätum [oleum), liliolum Gl; aus Ja end. ahd. lilja): gr. Aelpıov ds. — Zilium ist wrsch. nicht direkt aus Aecípiov entl. (Varro 1. 1. 5, 103, Saalfeld, Leumann-Stolz® 117. 178 usw.), sondern beide sind nach Meillet MSL. 15, 163 (Esqu. hist. lat. 86, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lilium, p. 833]

In the wild

lilium Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 20.122.8
lilia Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.29
lilia Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.392
lilia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.3.8
lilium Ausonius, Epistularum 22.pr.p1
lilia Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.241

6 of 99 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. lilium (scan p. 382; entry #6045).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. lilium (scan p. 833; entry #1549).

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