The corpus record — Latin

lineus

lineus · adj

of flax

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Where it lives

De Architectura 42 · 7.28/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 3 · 2.7/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 13 · 1.65/10k
Silvae 4 · 1.6/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

līnĕus — Lewis & Short

līnĕus, a, um, adj.linum,

I of flax or lint, flaxen, linen-: vincula, Verg. A. 5, 510: terga, the linen lining of a shield, id. ib. 10, 784: vestes, Plin. 12, 6, 13, § 25: lanugo, id. 32, 10, 44, § 126: pannis lineis involvere, Cels. 8, 10, 1.—Also subst.: līnĕum, a linen garment, Vulg. Ezech. 9, 2; id. ib. 10, 2 al.

In the wild

linea Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.7.3
lineo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p3
linea Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.10.44
linea Martial, Epigrammata 8.78.7
linea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.11.p5
linea Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.11.15

6 of 122 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. lineus (scan pp. 383-384; entry #6073).

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