The corpus record — Latin

valvŏlae

valvŏlae · f

the pod

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What it meant

valvŏlae — Lewis & Short

valvŏlae, ārum, f.dim.id. (quasi double-flaps, i. e.),

I the pod, shell, pericarp, valvules of leguminous plants: fabarum, Col. 2, 17, 7: lentis, id. 6, 10, 1; 6, 4, 3; 7, 4, 2 (ap. Fest. p. 375 Müll. masc. valvoli).

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.