The corpus record — Latin

simus

simus · adj

flat-nosed

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

Where it lives

Andria 187 · 189.81/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
De Inventione 4 · 1.21/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.65/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sīmus — Lewis & Short

sīmus, a, um, adj., = simo/s,

I flat-nosed, snub-nosed (cf. silus).

1 Lit.: avibus, serpentibus, piscibus, foramina tantum ad olfactus sine naribus, et hinc cognomina Simorum, Plin. 11, 37, 59, § 158: pecus Nerei, i. e. dolphins, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. 335, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 1 Rib.); cf.: rostrum delphini, Plin. 9, 8, 7, § 23: capellae, Verg. E. 10, 7: puer simā nare, Mart. 6, 39, 8; Cels. 8, 10, 7.—

2 Trop., Verg. M. 107.

In the wild

6 of 222 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. simus (scan p. 651; entry #10772).

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