The corpus record — Latin

ovilis

ovilis · adj

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Tristia 2 · 0.88/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏvīlis — Lewis & Short

ŏvīlis, e, adj.id.,

I of or for sheep, sheep- (ante- and post-class.): stercus, Cato, R. R. 39, 1: stabulatio, App. M. 4, p. 145, 13: grex, Dig. 7, 8, 12, § 2 al.—Hence, subst. ovile, q. v.

In the wild

ovilibus Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.828
ovile Prudentius, Dittochaeon 19.74
ovile Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 30.73
ovilibus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.73
ovile Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.364
ovile Ovid, Tristia 1.6.10

6 of 27 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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