The corpus record — Latin

salignus

salignus · adj

of willow

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

Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

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

What it meant

sălignus — Lewis & Short

sălignus (collat. form sălignĕus, a, um, adj.salix,

Col. 6, 2, 4; 9, 15, 12; 11, 3, 33; Dig. 47, 7, 3),

I of willow or willowwood, willow-: cunei, Cato, R. R. 20, 1: fustis, Hor. S. 1, 5, 22: verua, Ov. F. 2, 363: lectus, id. M. 8, 659; cf. pes, id. ib. 8, 657: frons, id. ib. 9, 99: umbonum crates, Verg. A. 7, 632: crates, Petr. 135.

In the wild

salignis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.11.p3
salignas Vergil, Aeneid 7.632
saligneis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.16.4
saligno Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.659
saligna Vergil, Georgicon 4.110
saligneis Cato, De agri cultura 43

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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.