The corpus record — Latin

ovile

ovile · n

A sheepfold

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Where it lives

Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

ŏvīle — Lewis & Short

ŏvīle, is, n.ovis.

I A sheepfold (syn. caula).

A Lit.: non lupus insidias explorat ovilia circum, Verg. G. 3, 537; id. A. 9, 59; Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 79.—

2 A fold for goats: aliis in ovilibus haedi, Ov. M. 13, 828.—

B Fig., the church or fold of Christ, Vulg. Johan. 10, 1, 16.—

II Ovile, an enclosed space in the Campus Martius, where the Romans voted at their comitia, Liv. 26, 22; Juv. 6, 528.—Plur., Luc. 2, 197; cf. Serv. Verg. E. 1, 34.

Where it came from

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