The corpus record — Latin

thallus

thallus · m

a green stalk

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Where it lives

Apologia 12 · 5.58/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Apologeticum 3 · 1.5/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

1. thallus — Lewis & Short

thallus, i, m., = qallo/s,

I a green stalk, green bough: cepae, Col. 11, 3, 58; Pall. Febr. 24, 4: Amyclaeus, perh. a myrtlebough, Verg. Cir. 376; Vulg. 2 Macc. 14, 4.

2. thallus — Walde–Hofmann

thallus, - m. ,Pflanzenstiel mit den Blättern“ (seit Colum., rom.) entl. aus gr. 9oAAóg ds. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. thallus, p. 1587]

In the wild

Thalli Apuleius, Apologia 48
Thalloque Martial, Epigrammata 4.67.5
thallo Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 376
Thallus Apuleius, Apologia 52
Thallus Apuleius, Apologia 43
Thalli Tertullian, Apologeticum 19.1

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. thallus (scan p. 714; entry #11840).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. thallus (scan p. 1587; entry #2998).

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