tăos — Lewis & Short
tăos, i, m., = taw/s,
I a kind of precious stone of the colors of the peacock, otherwise unknown, Plin. 37, 11, 72, § 187.
The corpus record — Latin
taos
taos · m
a kind of precious stone of the colors of the peacock
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Suasoriae 2 · 1.95/10k
- Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 1 · 0.68/10k
- De Inventione 2 · 0.6/10k
- de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
- Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
- Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
- De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
- Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
- Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- tai Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.5.17
- tai Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.21
- tae Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.7.p1
- tai Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 1.11
- tae Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.7
- taos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p77
6 of 15 attestations shown.
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.