The corpus record — Latin

scorteus

scorteus · adj

made of hides

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

Where it lives

Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

scortĕus — Lewis & Short

scortĕus, a, um, adj.scortum, I.,

I made of hides or leather, leathern: etiam nunc dicimus scortea ea, quae ex corio ac pellibus sunt facta, Varr. L. L. 7, § 84 Müll.; cf. Ov. F. 1, 629; and Fest. s. v. scorta, p. 330 Müll.: fascinum, Petr. 138, 1: pulvinus, Cels. 8, 12: asses, Hier. Chron. ad annum MCCC.—In a lusus verbb.: scorteum scortum, i. e. wrinkled, old, App. M. 1, p. 105, 36. —Subst.: scortĕa, ae, f. (sc. vestis), a garment of skins or leather, Sen. Q. N. 4, 6; Mart. 14, 130; Isid. 20, 7, 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.