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linter

linter · f

a wash-tub

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

1. linter — Lewis & Short

linter, tris (f. (m., plu/nw, to wash; cf. pluvia; hence]

nom. lintris, Sid. Carm. 5, 283), Tib. 2, 5, 34) [old form lunter for plun-ter; root

I Lit., a wash-tub; or in gen., a trough, vat, tray, tub, for wine, Cato, R. R. 11, 5; cf. Tib. 1, 5, 23: cavat arbore lintres, Verg. G. 1, 262.—

II Transf., a boat, skiff, wherry: lintribus materiam in insulam convehere, Cic. Mil. 27, 74; Caes. B. G. 1, 12: novas (sc. lintres), cavare, Liv. 21, 26.—Prov.: loqui e lintre, said of one who sways his body to and fro when speaking, Julius ap. Cic. Brut. 60, 216: reprehendenda et illa frequens et concitata in utramque partem nutatio, quam in Curione patre inrisit et Julius, quaerens, quis in luntre loqueretur, Quint. 11, 3, 129: naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, i. e. let me now turn to something else, Ov. F. 2, 864: in liquida nat tibi linter aquā, you have a favorable opportunity, Tib. 1, 7, 37 (1, 5, 76).

2. linter — Walde–Hofmann

linter, älter Iunter (Bücheler Kl. Schr. I 50f., Sommer Hb.? 69), -tris f. (m. selten seit Tib., aber wegen Zintrieulus vl. urspr.; f. dann nach nävis, cumba usw.) „Kahn, Nachen; Mulde, Trog* (seit Liv. Andr. rom. [-w-]; Zuntrieulus m. „kleiner Kahn“ Cic, lntrdrius „Kahnführer“ Ulp. und Inschr. [-y-)): unerklärt; Bildung und Flexion erinnern an venter. — Sachlich gut, aber lautlich unhaltbar ist Ficks I* 537 … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. linter, p. 841]

In the wild

linter Ovid, Fasti 2.864
linter Tibullus, Elegiae 1.5.76
lintres Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.21.27.8
lintres Vergil, Georgicon 1.262
linter Tibullus, Elegiae 2.5.34
lintres Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.624

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. linter (scan pp. 841-842; entry #1561). Root candidates: *intró-, *lütró-, *leu-.

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