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valles

a valley

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 20 · 13.8/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 11.48/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 17 · 11.22/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
De Bello Africo 10 · 7.69/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 11 · 7.46/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.21/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 9 · 7.12/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 8 · 7.03/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 11 · 6.86/10k

Densest 12 of 116 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. valles — Lewis & Short

valles or vallis (the former,

Caes. B. G. 7, 47; Verg. A. 11, 522;

I the latter, Ov. M. 3, 155; 8, 334 al.; cf. Fest. s. v. convallis, p. 42 Müll.), is, f. Gr. e(/los, lowland, *)=hlis; Lat. Veliae, Velitrae, a valley, vale.

I Lit.: quod satis magna valles intercedebat, Caes. B. G. 7, 47: vicus positus in valle, id. ib. 3, 1: per supinam vallem fusi sunt, Liv. 4, 46, 5: supinā valle praecipites egistis, id. 7, 24, 5: continui montes, nisi dissocientur opacā Valle, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 6: in reductā valle, id. C. 1, 17, 17; Verg. A. 6, 703: qui (colles) afferunt umbram vallibus, Cic. Rep. 2, 6, 11: valles cavae, Verg. G. 2, 391: saxosas inter decurrunt flumina valles, id. E. 5, 84: est curvo anfractu valles, id. A. 11, 522: rivos de pronā praeceps est valle volutus, Cat. 68, 59: domus est imis in vallibus, Ov. M. 2, 761: sub opacā valle, id. ib. 11, 277; cf.: (eloquentia) ut latissimi amnes totis vallibus fluat, Quint. 5, 14, 31.—

B Trop.: vallis plorationis, Aug. Conf. 9, 2: lacrimarum, Vulg. Psa. 83, 7.—

II Poet., transf., a hollow: valle sub alarum, Cat. 69, 6: femorum, Aus. Epigr. 128, 5.

2. vallés — Walde–Hofmann

vallés (vgl. vallzcula Paul. Fest. p. 42, Jünger vallicula seit Vulg.), jünger vallis, -is (seit Varro und Cic.) , Tal*; Vallonia, -ae f. Aug. civ. 4,8, vallösus, -a, -um seit Ps. Philo und Diosc.; convallis, -is f. .Talkessel* seit Cic.: zu einer Wz. *yol-, *uel- „biegen, wälzen‘, Gbd. „Wölbung oder Höhlung im Erdboden" (Persson Beitr. 539, 540, 545) aus *yalnis (Curtius 360; kaum *yalsis, Schulze Sb. Berlin 1910, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vallés, p. 1637]

In the wild

6 of 802 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vallés (scan pp. 1637-1638; entry #3143). Root candidates: *yol-, *uel-, *gel-.

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