The corpus record — Latin

litus

Part., from lino

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Distribution

Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 30.82/10k
Achilleis 21 · 29.15/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 3 · 25/10k
Argonautica 88 · 23.67/10k
Pharsalia 109 · 21.4/10k
Aeneid 124 · 19.57/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Punica 104 · 13.63/10k
de bello Gildonico 4 · 12.64/10k
Silvae 31 · 12.38/10k
Mosella 4 · 12.3/10k

Densest 12 of 133 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. lĭtus — Lewis & Short

Part., from lino

2. lĭtus — Lewis & Short

a smearing, besmearing, anointing

3. lītus — Lewis & Short

to pour sand on the sea-shore

Attestations

litoribus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.2.3
litus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.3
litoribus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.10.1
litora Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.11.5
litui Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.12.1
litoribus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.11.29

6 of 1,405 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 388; entry #6128 Review: Under source audit

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