1. tīnus — Lewis & Short
tīnus, i, m.,
I a plant: Viburnum tinus, Linn.; Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 128; 17, 10, 11, § 60:
bacis caerula,Ov. M. 10, 98.
The corpus record — Latin
tinus
tinus · m
a plant
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Where it lives
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
- De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
- Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2 · 0.28/10k
- Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
- Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. tinus — Walde–Hofmann
tinus, -; m. „der lorbeerartige Schneeball* (Verg., Ov., Plin., Cl.): wegen der stark abführenden Wirkung der Beeren wohl nach Holthausen IF. 25, 153 zu gr. TiAog m. „dünner Stuhlgang, Abführen^, kymr. fait ,Dung", aksl. tina ,Schlamm", timenije ds., ags. Dinan Feucht werden“ (s, auch unter fäbeo, tinca, tinea). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tinus, p. 1592]
In the wild
- tinus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.30.p1
- tinus Cicero, De Inventione 2.8
- tinus Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 407
- Tini Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.6.p1
- tinus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.10.p3
- tinus Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.98
6 of 7 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tinus (scan p. 716; entry #11894).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tinus (scan p. 1592; entry #3025).
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