The corpus record — Latin

palpebra

palpebra · f

an eyelid

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Where it lives

De Medicina 45 · 4.39/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Naturalis Historia 22 · 0.55/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3 · 0.43/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

palpē^bra — Lewis & Short

palpē^bra, ae, f. (collat. form palpē^-brum, i, n.,

Non. 218, 19; Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1),

I an eyelid (usually in plur.; cf. cilium).

I Lit.: palpebrae sunt tegmenta oculorum ... munitaeque sunt palpebrae tamquam vallo pilorum, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142: ipsae palpebrae, quibus mobilitas inest, et palpitatio vocabulum tribuit, etc., Lact. Opif. Dei, 10 init.; Lucr. 4, 952: Regulum resectis palpebris vigilando necaverunt, Cic. Pis. 19, 43; cf. Tubero ap. Gell. 6, 4, 3.—In sing., Cels. 5, 26, 23.—

II Transf.

1 Plur., the eyelashes, Plin. 11, 37, 56, § 154; 25, 13, 99, § 156.—

2 Plur., the eyes (eccl. Lat.): palpebrae ejus interrogant filios hominum, Vulg. Psa. 10, 4.

In the wild

6 of 81 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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