The corpus record — Latin

pallidus

pallidus · adj

pale

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Where it lives

Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Epigrammata 14 · 2.49/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
De Medicina 23 · 2.24/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pallĭdus — Lewis & Short

pallĭdus, a, um, adj.palleo,

I pale, pallid (cf.: lividus, luridus).

I Lit.: vides ut pallidus omnis Cenā desurgat dubiā, Hor. S. 2, 2, 76: ora buxo Pallidiora, Ov. M. 4, 134; Prop. 5, 5, 72: Asturii scrutator pallidus auri, Luc. 4, 298; id. 1, 618: recto vultu et pallidus, i. e. well or sick, Juv. 10, 189: oriens, Plin. 18, 35, 78, § 342: stellae, quae sunt omnium pallidissimae, id. 2, 25, 22, § 89.—Esp. of the Lower World: pallida turba, Tib. 1, 10, 38: ditis profundi Pallida regna, Luc. 1, 456: pallida Leti loca, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 6 Müll. (Trag. Rel. v. 109 Vahl.): equus, Vulg. Apoc. 6, 8.—

B Transf.

1 That makes pale, pallid: pallida mors, Hor. C. 1, 4, 13: vina, Prop. 5, 7, 36: aconita, Luc. 4, 322.—

2 Musty, mouldy: vetustate ficus fit pallidior, Varr. R. R. 1, 67.—

3 Livid: hospes inauratā pallidior statuā, Cat. 81, 4. —

II Trop.

A Pale with love, in love, Prop. 4, 7, 28: pallidus in lentā Naïde Daphnis erat, Ov. A. A. 1, 732; id. Am. 3, 6, 25. —

B Pale with fright, affrighted, Ov. H. 12, 97; 1, 14.

In the wild

pallidus Celsus, De Medicina 5.26.p30
pallida Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.27
pallida Martial, Epigrammata 14.162.2
pallidioris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.15.p3
pallida Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.6.p4
Pallida Martial, Epigrammata 8.14.1

6 of 174 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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