The corpus record — Latin

tela

tela · f

a web

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 5 · 7.17/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Georgicon 3 · 2.12/10k
Heautontimorumenos 2 · 1.82/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tēla — Lewis & Short

tēla, ae, f.prob. contr. from texia, from texo; cf. ala, from axilla; mala, from maxilla, Cic. Or. 45, 153,

I a web.

I Lit.: texentem telam studiose ipsam offendimus, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 44: Penelope telam retexens, Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 95: tenui telas discreverat auro, Verg. A. 4, 264; 11, 75: vetus in telā deducitur argumentum, Ov. M. 6, 69: commenta retexere tela, Stat. S. 3, 5, 9; Dig. 32, 1, 69; 34, 2, 22: lanā et telā victum quaeritans, Ter. And. 1, 1, 48; cf.: assiduis exercet bracchia telis, Ov. F. 4, 699: antiquas exercet telas, id. M. 6, 145: plena domus telarum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 26, § 59.—Of a spider's web: deiciamque eorum (araneorum) omnis telas, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 25; Cat. 68, 49; Mart. 8, 33, 15; Juv. 14, 61.—

B Transf.

1 The threads that run lengthwise in the loom, the warp (syn.: stamen, trama), Tib. 1, 6, 79: licia telae Addere, Verg. G. 1, 285; 3, 562; Ov. M. 4, 275; 6, 54 sq.—

2 A weaver's beam, yarn-beam; also, a loom, Cato, R. R. 10, 5; 14, 2; Ov. M. 4, 35; 6, 576. —

II Trop., a web, i. e. a plan, design: exorsa haec tela non male omnino mihi est, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 116: ad detexundam telam, id. Ps. 1, 4, 7: quamquam ea tela texitur et ea incitatur in civitate ratio vivendi, ut, etc., Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 226.

2. tela — Walde–Hofmann

tela, -ae f. ,Gewebe" (tölarium n. , Webstuhl^ Isid., Sofer Isid. 159): aus *texià, zu texd (Curtius 219, Vanidek 100). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tela, p. 1563]

In the wild

telae Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.204
telas Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.54
telas Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 107.10
telas Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.155
telas Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 53.1
telas Cato, De agri cultura 14

6 of 61 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tela (scan p. 1563; entry #2949).

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