The corpus record — Latin

velivolus

velivolus · adj

sail-flying

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Where it lives

Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

vēlĭvŏlus — Lewis & Short

vēlĭvŏlus, a, um, adj.id.,

I sail-flying, winged with sails, a poet. epithet of a ship: naves, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5 (Ann. v. 381, and Trag. v. 111 Vahl.); Ov. P. 4, 5, 42.—Absol.: mare velivolis florebat puppibus, i. e. with ships, Lucr. 5, 1442 (1440).—Transf., an epithet of the sea: maria alta velivola, Liv. And. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5: mare, Verg. A. 1, 224; Ov. P. 4, 16, 21.

In the wild

velivolum Vergil, Aeneid 1.224
velivolas Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.5.42
velivolum Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.801
velivolis Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1442
velivolum Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.11.p3

Where it came from

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