The corpus record — Latin

uelum

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Where it lives

Florida 4 · 5.08/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 12 · 4.88/10k
Apologia 7 · 3.26/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 4 · 2.76/10k
C. Caligula 2 · 2.62/10k
Elegiae 6 · 2.37/10k
Suasoriae 2 · 1.95/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 3 · 1.8/10k
Controversiae 11 · 1.67/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 3 · 1.4/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

In the wild

uelis Apuleius, Apologia 92
uelis Apuleius, Florida 16.p4
uelis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.15.2
uela Silius Italicus, Punica 3.706
uelis Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 2.P1
uelis Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.1.11

6 of 82 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. velum (scan p. 674; entry #1934). Root candidates: *weksh-, *ueKsh-, *uegh-.

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