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pallor

paleness

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Where it lives

Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Thebais 12 · 1.92/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pallor — de Vaan

pallor 'paleness' (Lucr.+). Pit *palwo- 'pale, grey'. IE cognates: Lith. palvas 'light yellow, straw-coloured', RuCS plavb 'white', Ru. — [de Vaan, s.v. pallor, p. 454]

2. pallor — Lewis & Short

pallor, ōris, m.palleo,

I pale color, paleness, wanness, pallor.

I Lit.: pudorem rubor, terrorem pallor et tremor consequitur, Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19: albus ora pallor inficit, Hor. Epod. 7, 15: luteus, id. ib. 10, 16; id. S. 2, 8, 35; 2, 18, 25: partemque coloris Luridus exsangues pallor convertit in herbas, Ov. M. 4, 267; cf.: gelidus pallor, id. Tr. 1, 4, 11: confuderat oris exsanguis notas pallor, Curt. 8, 3, 13: pallor ora occupat, Verg. A. 4, 499: femineus pallor in corpore, Plin. Pan. 48, 4: Aurorae, Stat. Th. 2, 334.— Esp. of lovers: tinctus violā pallor amantium, Hor. C. 3, 10, 14; cf. Ov. M. 8, 790; Prop. 1, 5, 21.—Of the Lower World: pallor hiemsque tenent late loca senta, Ov. M. 4, 436; Luc. 5, 628.—Plur.: quae palloribus omnia pingunt, Lucr. 4, 336: tot hominum pallores, the paleness of death, Tac. Agr. 45, 3.—

B Transf.

1 Mustiness, mouldiness: pallor, tineae omnia caedunt, Lucil. ap. Non. 462, 26: venti umidi pallore volumina (bibliothecarum) corrumpunt, Vitr. 6, 7: ne (dolia) pallorem capiant, Col. 12, 50, 16; 12, 41, 4.—

2 A disagreeable color or shape, unsightliness: palloribus omnia pingunt, Lucr. 4, 311: pallorem ducere, Ov. M. 8, 759: obscurus solis, in an eclipse, Luc. 7, 200; Plin. 2, 30, 30, § 98.—

II Trop., alarm, terror: palla pallorem incutit, Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 46: hic tibi pallori, Cynthia, versus erit, Prop. 2, 5, 30: quantus pro conjuge pallor, Stat. S. 5, 1, 70: notare aliquem pallore, Luc. 8, 55.—Hence,

B Pallor, personified as the god of fear, Liv. 1, 27, 7; Lact. 1, 20, 11.

In the wild

pallore Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.16.p2
pallorem Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.1.20
palloris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.38.p2
pallorem Plautus, Menaechmi 4.2
pallor Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 45.5
pallore Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.27

6 of 140 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. pallor (scan p. 454; entry #1236). Root candidates: *palwo-.

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