The corpus record — Latin

olor1

swan

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. olor — de Vaan

olor 'swan' [m. r] (Verg.+) Pit. *elor. IE cognates: Olr. eluy MIr. elae [f.] < PCI. *eija?, W. alarch, pi- eleirch 'swan' < *alarko- « *elar-sko- < *elrr-sko-; Ru. lebed' [m.], Cz, labut\ SCr. labud 'swan' < *h2elbh-ond-i- (?); OIc. elptr, glpt [f.]s OHG albiz, elbiz, OE celbitu, ielfetu [f.] 'swan' < *albit-. The preform was probably *el5r (with regular e > ο before velarised /), but *olor cannot be completely … — [de Vaan, s.v. olor, p. 441]

2. ŏlor — Lewis & Short

ŏlor, ōris, m.,

I a swan (poet. and in post-Aug. prose for cygnus): ad vada Maeandri concinit albus olor, Ov. H. 7, 2: arguti, Verg. E. 9, 36: nivei, Val. Fl. 6, 102: purpurei, Hor. C. 4, 1, 10; Plin. 10, 23, 32, § 63 et saep.: olorum morte narratur flebilis cantus, id. ib.

3. ŏlor — Lewis & Short

ŏlor, ōris, m.olo, oleo,

I a smell, odor (only ante- and post-class.): litterā commutatā dicitur odor olor, hinc olet et odorari, Varr. L. L. 6, § 83 Müll.: olore spurcissimi umoris perfusus, App. M. 1, p. 110, 2 dub.; Arn. 2, 85 (al. odores).

In the wild

olores Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.23.p3
oloribus Horace, Carmina 3.28
olor Ovid, Epistulae 7.2
olores Silius Italicus, Punica 7.441
olores Ovid, Amores 2.6.53
olores Statius, Silvae 1.2.142

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. olor (scan pp. 441-442; entry #1199). Root candidates: *alarko-, *albit-, *olV-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. olor (scan p. 485; entry #7842).

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