The corpus record — Latin

silus1

silus1 · adj

having a broad

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Where it lives

Controversiae 39 · 5.91/10k
Suasoriae 4 · 3.89/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Annales 17 · 1.91/10k
Epigrammata 7 · 1.24/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 2 · 0.93/10k
Letters to Atticus 10 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. sĭlus — Lewis & Short

sĭlus, a, um, adj.,

I having a broad, turned-up nose, pug-nosed, snub-nosed, simo/s (cf. simus): ecquos (deos arbitramur) silos, flaccos, frontones? etc., Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 80; ante-class. collat. form sīlo, ōnis, m., Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 11; Varr. ap. Non. 25, 25.

2. Sĭlus — Lewis & Short

Sĭlus, i, or Sīlo, ōnis, m.1. silus,

I a Roman surname, esp. of the gens Sergia.

1 M. Sergius Orata Silus, Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 285.—

2 M. Sergius Silus, Liv. 32, 27, 7; Eckhel. D. N. 5, p. 306.—

3 Domitius Silus, Tac. A. 15, 59 fin. al.—

4 In the form Silo: Arruntius Silo, Dig. 48, 19, 27; cf. Plin. 11, 37, 59, § 158.

In the wild

6 of 97 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. silus (scan pp. 649-650; entry #10750).

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