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teres

round

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Florida 3 · 3.81/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k
Carmina 5 · 2.23/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. teres — de Vaan

teres 'round' and dives 'rich'. The -e- in -et- (instead of regular -it-) will be due to vowel assimilation to the first syllable. No etymology. Bibl.: WH I: 637f, EM 291, Leumann 1977: 285,373. — [de Vaan, s.v. teres, p. 295]

2. tĕrĕs — Lewis & Short

tĕrĕs, ĕtis, adj.tero; cf. Gr. te/rhn, tender,

I rounded off, rounded, well-turned, round, smooth, etc.: teres est in longitudine rotundatum, quales asseres natura ministrat, Fest. p. 363 Müll. (class.; syn. rotundus).

I Lit.: stipites, Caes. B. G. 7, 73: palus, Col. 4, 33, 4: trunci arborum, Verg. A. 6, 207: oliva, id. E. 8, 16: virga, Ov. M. 2, 135: fusus, id. ib. 6, 22: hastile, Liv. 21, 8, 10: mucro, Verg. A. 7, 665: lapillus, Ov. M. 10, 260: (fundae) habena, Verg. A. 11, 579.—Of parts of the body: cervix, round, slender, Lucr. 1, 35, Verg. A. 8, 633; so, collum, Ov. M. 10, 113: brachiolum, Cat. 61, 181. surae, Hor. C. 2, 4, 21, Ov. M. 11, 80: membra, Suet. Caes. 45: digiti, Ov. A. A. 1, 622, hence, of the form: puer, Hor. Epod. 11, 28.—Of other objects: plagae, tightly twisted, firmly woven, Hor. C. 1, 1, 28 strophium, Cat. 64, 65: zona, Ov. F. 2, 320: gemma, Verg. A. 5, 313: iaspis, Claud Rapt. Pros. 2, 40: catena, Luc. 3, 565: filum, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 80: mitra, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 185: coma, curling, curly, Varr. ap Non. 328, 12.—

II Trop., in gen., smooth, polished, elegani: (sapiens) teres atque rotundus, Hor. S. 2, 7, 86, imitated by Aus. Idyll. 16, 4: Atticorum aures teretes et religiosae, Cic. Or. 9, 27: teretes aures intellegensque judicium, id. Opt. Gen. 4, 11: vox in disputationibus, smooth, without impediment, Quint. 11, 3, 64: oratio plena, sed tamen teres, rounded off, polished, Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 199: Ciceroni mollius teretiusque visum est, fretu scribere quam freto, Gell. 13, 20, 15.—Sup. and adv. seem not to occur.

In the wild

teretes Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.80
teretes Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.266
teretique Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.313
tereti Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.113
teretesque Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.260
teretes Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.79

6 of 95 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. teres (scan p. 295; entry #751).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. teres (scan p. 709; entry #11771).

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