The corpus record — Latin

telis

telis · f

the herb fenugreek

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

Where it lives

Datames 2 · 10.98/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 8 · 7.1/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Hercules 4 · 5.26/10k
Punica 40 · 5.24/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Aeneid 27 · 4.26/10k
De Constantia 2 · 3.78/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k

Densest 12 of 93 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tēlis — Lewis & Short

tēlis, is, f., = th=lis,

I the herb fenugreek Trigonella foenum Graecum, Linn.: foenum Graecum quod telin vocant, Plin. 24, 19, 120, § 184.

In the wild

telum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.48
telum Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
Telum Lucan, Pharsalia 3.501
telum Vergil, Aeneid 7.508
telum Silius Italicus, Punica 7.297
telum Vergil, Aeneid 11.484

6 of 352 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.