tĕrēdo — Lewis & Short
tĕrēdo, ĭnis, f., = terhdw/n,
I a worm that gnaws wood, clothing, etc., a wood fretter, moth, Plin. 16, 41, 80, § 220; Col. 4, 24, 6, Vitr. 5, 12; Ov. P. 1, 1, 69; Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 197, 23, 7, 70, § 135; 28, 20, 81, § 264.
The corpus record — Latin
teredo
teredo · f
a worm
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Where it lives
- Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
- Naturalis Historia 18 · 0.45/10k
- De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
- Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- teredini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.25.p1
- teredinem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.24.6
- teredini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.38.p1
- teredines Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.7.p3
- teredini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.2
- teredinum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.16.p100
6 of 22 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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