The corpus record — Latin

tilia

tilia · f

the linden

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Where it lives

Georgicon 4 · 2.83/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Naturalis Historia 25 · 0.63/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

tĭlĭa — Lewis & Short

tĭlĭa, ae, f.,

I the linden or lime-tree.

I Lit., Plin. 16, 14, 25, § 65; Verg. G. 1, 173; 2, 449; 4, 183; Ov. M. 8, 620; 10, 92. —

II Transf., the inner bark of the linden, barkbands, Plin. 16, 14, 25, § 65; cf. of the elm: corticis interior tilia lepras sedat, id. 24, 8, 33, § 48.

In the wild

tiliae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.31.p1
tilia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.8.p5
tiliae Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.620
tiliae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.13
tilia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.25.p3
tilia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.40.p2

6 of 35 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. tilia (scan p. 715; entry #11874).

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