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molaris

molaris · adj

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Carmina 4 · 1.78/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mŏlāris — Lewis & Short

mŏlāris, e, adj.mola,

I of or belonging to a mill or to grinding, mill-.

I Adj. (post-Aug.): molaris lapis, Plin. 36, 19, 30, § 137; Isid. 19, 10, 10: petrae molares, Grom. Vet. 401, 20: saxum, id. ib. 212, 9: lapis molaris, Vulg. Luc. 17, 2: deus, grinding, molar, id. Judic. 15, 19.—

II Subst.: mŏlāris, is, m.

A A millstone; poet. for any large stone: ramis vastisque molaribus instat, Verg. A. 8, 250; Tac. H. 2, 22; Ov. M. 3, 59: lapis quasi molaris magnus, Vulg. Apoc. 18, 21; cf. Sen. Ep. 82, 25.—

B (Sc. dens.) A grinder, molar: interque molares Difficili crescente cibo, Juv. 13, 212: presso stridere molari, id. 6, 160: molares superiores (of horses' teeth), Col. 6, 29, 4; Pall. 4, 13, 9.

In the wild

molares Statius, Thebais 8.710
molares Prudentius, Cathemerina 7.119
molaris Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 5.489
molari Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.19.3
molari Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.181
molares Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 9.70

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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