The corpus record — Latin

patulus

patulus · adj

standing open

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
Carmina 8 · 3.57/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Punica 21 · 2.75/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pătŭlus — Lewis & Short

pătŭlus, a, um, adj.pateo,

I standing open, open (syn. patens).

I Lit.: locus patulus, Varr. L. L. 5, § 161 Müll.: pina duabus grandibus patula conchis, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123; id. Fin. 3, 19, 63: patulae aures, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 70: nares, Verg. G. 1, 376: cavo aut patulo maxime ore, Quint. 9, 4, 33: fenestrae, Ov. M. 14, 752: latitudo, Tac. A. 15, 40.—

B Transf., spread out, spreading, extended, broad, wide: mundus, Lucr. 6, 108: rami, Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28: quadra, Verg. A. 7, 115: fagus, id. E. 1, 1: patulis captavit naribus auras, id. G. 1, 376: pectines, Hor. S. 2, 4, 34: lacus, Ov. M. 2, 379: plaustra, Verg. G. 3, 362: canistra, Ov. M. 8, 676: patulae in latitudinem naves, Plin. 36, 9, 14, § 68: loca urbis, Tac. A. 15, 40: aves alis patulae, Gell. 6, 6, 12: arca, Juv. 14, 74: patulos boves, broadhorned, Fest. p. 221 Müll.—*

II Trop., open to all, i. e. common: patulus orbis, the beaten round, Hor. A. P. 132.

In the wild

patulo Statius, Thebais 4.792
patula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.1.p1
patula Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
patulas Horace, Epistulae 2.2.105
patulos Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 1.262
patulos Martial, Epigrammata 3.19.3

6 of 96 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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