The corpus record — Latin

olivum

olivum · n

Oil

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
Pseudolus 2 · 1.81/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏlīvum — Lewis & Short

ŏlīvum or ŏlīvom, i, n.id..

I Lit.

A Oil (poet. and in post-class. prose for oleum): eme die caecā hercle olivum, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67; id. As. 2, 4, 26; id. Ps. 1, 2, 76; Lucr. 2, 392; id. 6, 1073: inolens, id. 2, 850: pingue, Verg. E. 5, 68; Ov. M. 10, 176: perfundere pisces olivo, Hor. S. 2, 4, 50: si ex olivis meis olivum feceris, Gai. Inst. 2, 79.—

B Trop., the palœstra (from the use of oil to anoint wrestlers): cur olivum vitat? Hor. C. 1, 8, 8; cf. oleum.—

II Transf., an ointment, unguent: Syrio fragrans olivo, Cat. 6. 8; Prop. 4, 16, 31.

In the wild

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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