The corpus record — Latin

scilla

scilla · f

A sea-onion

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Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
De Medicina 10 · 0.98/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Naturalis Historia 20 · 0.5/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

1. scĭlla — Lewis & Short

scĭlla (squilla), ae, f., = ski/lla.

I A sea-onion, sea-leek, squill: Scilla maritima, Linn.; Plin. 19, 5, 30, § 93; 20, 9, 39, § 97; 21, 17, 66, § 106; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 8; Col. 12, 33; 12, 34; Pall. Febr. 29, 2; id. Mart. 10, 4; id. Jul. 8, 1 al.—

II A small fish of the lobster kind, which defends the pinna, a prawn, shrimp: Cancer squilla, Linn.; in this sense more usually written squilla, Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123; Plin. 9, 42, 66, § 142; Lucil. ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24; Hor. S. 2, 4, 58; 2, 8, 42; Mart. 13, 83.

2. scilla — Walde–Hofmann

scilla, -ae £. ,Meerzwiebel* (seit Varro, scillinus seit Plin., seslfitzs seit Colum.): Lw. aus gr. ox0Aa (oxılktıng). Vgl. squilla. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. scilla, p. 1399]

In the wild

scillae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.17.p7
scilla Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.27.10
scillam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.9.p7
scilla Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.6.p1
scillae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.7.p2
scillae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.4

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. scilla (scan p. 1399; entry #2476).

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