The corpus record — Latin

tinnulus

tinnulus · adj

ringing

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Where it lives

Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

tinnŭlus — Lewis & Short

tinnŭlus, a, um, adj.id.,

I ringing, tinkling, shrill-sounding (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: sistra, Ov. P. 1, 1, 38: aera, id. M. 4, 393: chordae, Sen. Troad. 833: fistula, Calp. Ecl. 4, 74: vox, Cat. 61, 13; Pompon. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (with tenuis): illic cymbala tinnulaeque Gades, i. e. the shrill noise of the Gaditan maidens, Stat. S. 1, 6, 71 (cf. Juv. 11, 162).—

II Transf., of speakers: (rhetores) tumidi et corrupti et tinnuli, jingling, Quint. 2, 3, 9: verba, Hier. Ep. 143, 2; cf. tinnitus, II.

In the wild

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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