The corpus record — Latin

tinea

tinea · f

a gnawing worm

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Anima 3 · 1.26/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tĭnĕa — Lewis & Short

tĭnĕa, ae, f.tan-, root of tondeo; cf. Gr. te/mnw.

I In gen., a gnawing worm, in clothes, books, etc., a moth, bookworm, etc.: Phalaena tinea, Linn.; Cato, R. R. 98, 1; Hor. S. 2, 3, 119; id. Ep. 1, 20, 12; Ov. P. 1, 1, 72; Mart. 11, 1, 14; Plin. 11, 35, 41, § 117.—

II In partic.

A Of the moth that flutters about a light, Lact. Phoen. 107.—

B Of the wood-worm, Vitr. 5, 12 fin.—

C Of worms in beehives, Verg. G. 4, 246; Col. 9, 14, 2.—

D Of worms in fig-trees, Col. 5, 10, 9.—

E Of worms in the human body, Plin. 27, 13, 120, § 145; 21, 20, 83, § 140; 23, 8, 77, § 148; 24, 10, 47, § 77.—

F Agrestes tineae, silkworms, Ov. M. 15, 373.—

G Of lice, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 113; 1, 260.

2. tinea — Walde–Hofmann

tinea, -ae f. „ein Fisch (Schleie)" (seit Auson, rom. ; als EN. schon bei Cic. und Quint.; s. auch Schulze EN. 374): vi. nach Niedermann é und i 32, BPhW. 1903, 1305, Ciardi-Dupré BB. 26, 201 aus *imica, zu ai. timih „Walfisch, großer Raubfisch* (bezweifelt von Charpentier KZ. 47, 184°). Kaum besser Muller Ait. Wb. 484 (als „der Schleimige“ zu tinus, vgl. Holthausen KZ. 46,179); vgl. zur Bed. ahd. siio, gr. Aıveüs … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tinea, p. 1591]

In the wild

tineas Martial, Epigrammata 11.1.14
tineis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.17.p8
tineis Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.4.1
tineis Ausonius, Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 22.3
tineas Claudian, In Eutropium 1.260
tineas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.7.p2

6 of 40 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. tinea (scan p. 716; entry #11881).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tinea (scan p. 1591; entry #3018).

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