The corpus record — Latin

Pelusium

Pelusium · n

an Egyptian city at the eastern mouth of the Nile

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 2 · 1.92/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2 · 0.76/10k
De Bello Civili 2 · 0.62/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 4 · 0.54/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 4 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Pēlūsĭum — Lewis & Short

Pēlūsĭum, ii, n., = *phlou/sion,

I an Egyptian city at the eastern mouth of the Nile, the modern Castle of Tineh, Mel. 1, 9, 9; Plin. 10, 30, 45, § 87; Caes. B. C. 3, 103; Liv. 44, 19.—Hence,

A Pēlūsĭăcus, a, um, adj., Pelusiac: lens, Verg. G. 1, 228: linum, Plin 19, 1, 2, § 14: ostium Nili, Mel. 1, 9, 9; Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 64: via, leading to Pelusium, id. 6, 29, 33, § 167.—

B Pēlū-sĭānus, a, um, adj., Pelusian: mala, Col. 5, 10, 19.—

C Pēlūsĭōta or Pēlūsĭō-tes, ae, m., a Pelusian: Pelusiotae caepe non edunt, Gell. 20, 8, 7.—Acc.: Pelusioten, Hier. adv. Jovin. 2, n. 7.—

D Pēlūsĭus, a, um, adj., Pelusian: vada Pelusia, Luc. 8, 466: linteum, Phaedr. 2, 5, 12: munera, Mart. 13, 9, 1.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.