The corpus record — Latin

versatilis

versatilis · adj

that turns

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 4 · 2.55/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Architectura 7 · 1.21/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 1 · 0.68/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

versātĭlis — Lewis & Short

versātĭlis, e, adj.id.,

I that turns or moves round, revolving, movable (not in Cic.).

I Lit.: templum mundi, Lucr. 5, 1436: laquearia cenationum, Sen. Ep. 90, 15: tabulae, Suet. Ner. 31: triclinia, Lampr. Heliog. 21: molae, Plin. 36, 18, 29, § 135: acies, Curt. 4, 13, 32.—

II Trop., versatile: ingenium, Liv 39, 40, 5.

In the wild

versatili Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.16.3
versatilibus Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.2.10.p2
versatile Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 p42
versatilis Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.136
versatili Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.15.p6
versatilibus Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 21

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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