The corpus record — Latin

sentis1

sentis1 · m

A thorn

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Inventione 3 · 0.91/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. sentis — Lewis & Short

sentis, is (m. (

acc. sentim, Col. 11, 3, 4),

I fem.: et rubus et sentes tantummodo natae, Ov. de Nuce, 113: tenerae fruticum sentes, Verg. Cul. 55).

I A thorn, thornbush, brier, bramble (usually in plur., and mostly poet.; not in Cic.; but. cf. vepris).

(a) Plur.: arbores, vites, vepres, sentes, S. C. ap. Front. Aquaed. 129: He. Asper meus victus sane est. Er. Sentesne esitas? Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 85; Lucr. 5, 207; Verg. E. 4, 29; id. G. 2, 411; id. A. 2, 379; 9, 382; Ov. M. 1, 509; 2, 799; *Caes. B. G. 2, 17; Col. 6, 3, 1 al.—

(b) Sing.: Graeci vocant kuno/sbaton, nos sentem canis appellamus, the dogrose, wild-brier, Col. 11, 3, 4.—*

II Transf., in Plaut., of thievish hands, Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 1.

2. Sentis — Lewis & Short

Sentis, v. Sentinas.

3. sentis — Walde–Hofmann

sentis, -is m. , Dornstrauch* (seit Plaut, [spätlat. auch senfiz, a.d.], rom. neben *senticella; vgl. sentictum ,Dorngebüsch" seit Plt., senticösus seit Afran. [sentösus, -uösus seit Fulg.]), sentus, -a, -um *horridus, struppig’ (Ter. Eun. 236, Verg. Aen. 6, 462), spätl. (Prud.) „dornig® (s. zur Bed, Persson Beitr. 357 f. gegen Norden Komm.? 254, der es nach Buecheler zu gr. olveodon stellt): nach Persson Wzerw. 135 … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sentis, p. 1422]

In the wild

sentibus Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.793
sentes Vergil, Aeneid 9.382
sentibus Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 11.121
sentibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.1.13
senten Cicero, De Inventione 2.162
Sentibus Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 9.77.8

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. sentis (scan p. 638; entry #10535).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sentis (scan p. 1422; entry #2558).

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