nautĭlus — Lewis & Short
nautĭlus or nautĭlŏs, i, m., = nauti/los,
I the nautilus, a shell-fish so called because it sails like a vessel, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88; cf. nauplius and naviger.
The corpus record — Latin
nautilus
nautilus · m
the nautilus, a shell-fish so called because it sails like a vessel
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Heautontimorumenos 9 · 8.19/10k
- Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
- Adelphi 3 · 3.03/10k
- De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
- Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
- De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
- Andria 2 · 2.03/10k
- Silvae 4 · 1.6/10k
- Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
- Tusculanae Disputationes 7 · 1.24/10k
- Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
- Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k
Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- Nais Ausonius, Mosella pr.82
- Naum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.20
- Nae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.1
- Nais Statius, Silvae 3.4.42
- Nae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.13
- Nae Terence, Heautontimorumenos 4.8
6 of 62 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.