1. mallus — Lewis & Short
mallus, i, m., = mallo/s,
I a lock of wool, Cato, R. R. 157.
The corpus record — Latin
mallus
mallus · m
a lock of wool
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Where it lives
- Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
- Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
2. mallus — Walde–Hofmann
mallus, -; m. „Gericht, Gerichtstag" (Lex Sal. [rom., Meyer-Lübke n. 5268a], ebenso gamallus „dem gleichen Gericht unterworfen“, mallobergus ,Gerichtsberg", (ad)malläre „vor Gericht rufen“): aus germ. *madlá-, vgl. ahd. mahal n. „Gerichtsstätte, Gericht, Vertrag“ usw. (Sievers IF. 4,336f., v. Grienberger IA. 26, 31£., Walde-P. II 304). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. mallus, p. 922]
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Where it came from
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. mallus (scan p. 922; entry #1668). Root candidates: *madlá-.
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