1. talla — Lewis & Short
talla, ae, f.,
I a peel or coat of an onion, Lucil. ap. Non. 201, 2; cf.: talla krommu/ou le/puron, Gloss. Philox.
The corpus record — Latin
talla
talla · f
a peel
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What it meant
2. talla — Walde–Hofmann
talla, -ae f£. ,Zwiebelhülse" (follieulum c&pae Paul. Fest. p. 359, xkpöuuvov Aérupov Gl. II 195, 17): nach Ernout El, dial. lat. 235 dialektisch aus Zälia ds., wohl identisch mit tälea, vgl. gr. tfjg f. „Hülsengewächs, Bockshorn“. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. talla, p. 1552]
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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.