The corpus record — Latin

valva

valva · f

the leaf of a door

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Epicedion in Patrem 1 · 26.39/10k
Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 2 · 1.36/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Letters 6 · 0.93/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
In C. Verrem 7 · 0.7/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

valva — Lewis & Short

valva, ae, f.,

I the leaf of a door, a folding-door; sing. rare, Pompon. ap. Non. 19, 23; Petr. 96; Sen. Herc. Fur. 999.—Mostly plur.: valvae, ārum, the leaves, folds, or valves of a door, a folding-door, Cic. Div. 1, 34, 74; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94; 2, 4, 56, § 124; Caes. B. C. 3, 105; Juv. 4, 63; Prop. 4 (5), 8, 51; Ov. M. 1, 172; 2, 4; Hor. S. 2, 6, 112; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 5; 5, 6, 19; 5, 6, 38.

In the wild

valvas Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.185
valvis Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.207
valvis Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.124
valvis Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.124
valvas Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 p55
valva Seneca, Hercules 1

6 of 51 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.