The corpus record — Latin

oblongus

adj., rather long, longish; oblong (not in Cic. or Cæs.): missile telum hastili oblongo, Liv. 21, 8: figura, Plin. 37…

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Where it lives

Mercator 2 · 2.34/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De Architectura 6 · 1.04/10k
Naturalis Historia 26 · 0.66/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Jugurtha 1 · 0.47/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

ob-longus — Lewis & Short

ob-longus, a, um,

I adj., rather long, longish; oblong (not in Cic. or Cæs.): missile telum hastili oblongo, Liv. 21, 8: figura, Plin. 37, 12, 75, § 196: folia, id. 25, 3, 6. § 21: scutula, Tac. Agr. 10.—Comp.: foramen oblongius, Vitr. 21, 8 fin.; 10, 11, 4.

In the wild

oblonga Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.3.p1
oblongum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.25.p20
oblongae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.8.p13
oblongo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.13.p3
oblonga Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.18.p4
oblongis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.12.p1

6 of 49 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.