1. sil — Lewis & Short
sil, silis, n.,
I a kind of yellowish earth, yellow ochre, Plin. 33, 12, 56, § 158; Vitr. 7, 11; Veg. 5, 26; 5, 39; 6, 28 fin.; Aus. Idyll. 12, Gram. 8.
The corpus record — Latin
sil
sil · n
a kind of yellowish earth
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Where it lives
- Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
- De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
- De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
- De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
- Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
- Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
What it meant
2. sil — Lewis & Short
sil or sili, = seselis.
In the wild
- sil Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.7.1
- sil Ausonius, Technopaegnion 14.8
- sil Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.3.27
- sil Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.14.1
- sil Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.12.p3
- Sil Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.13.p3
6 of 10 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. sil (scan p. 649; entry #10732).
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