The corpus record — Latin

linteum

linteum · n

a linen cloth

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
Naturalis Historia 20 · 0.5/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lintĕum — Lewis & Short

lintĕum, i, n.linum,

I a linen cloth.

I Lit.: linteum cape atque exterge tibi manus, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 110: uncto linteo, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 42: linteum extersui, id. Curc. 4, 4, 22: merces linteis et vitro delatae, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 40: succinctus linteo, Suet. Calig. 26: sucus linteo colatus, Plin. 25, 13, 103, § 164: sella, linteisque lorisque, Mart. 2, 57, 6: lintea componit, Juv. 3, 263.—

II Transf.

A Linen: Tarquinienses (polliciti sunt) lintea in vela, Liv. 28, 45.—

B A sail: certum est dare lintea retro, Verg. A. 3, 686: non tibi sunt integra lintea, Hor. C. 1, 14, 9: Zephyri veniant in lintea pleni, Ov. Am. 2, 11, 41.—

C A girdle: ut qui quaerere velit, nudus quaerat, linteo cinctus, lancem habens, Gai. Inst. 3, § 192; cf. also licium.—

D A curtain, used as a sign: inscripta lintea, Juv. 8, 168.—

E Stuff, cloth, other than linen, Plin. 12, 10, 21, § 38 sq.

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