The corpus record — Latin

viola

viola · f

the violet

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

Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vĭŏla — Lewis & Short

vĭŏla, ae, f.dim.Gr. i)/on,

I the violet, the stock-gillyflower.

I Lit., Plin. 21, 6, 14, § 27; 21, 11, 38, § 64; Verg. E. 2, 47; 10, 39. —Collect.: an tu me in violā putabas aut in rosā dicere? Cic. Tusc. 5, 26, 73 al.—

II A violet color, violet, Hor. C. 3, 10, 14; id. Ep. 2, 1, 207; Plin. 34, 12, 32, § 124; 37, 9, 40, § 121.

2. viola — Walde–Hofmann

viola, lov nicht weiter mit Benfey Wzl-Lex. I 314, Jacobsohn Ar. u. Ugrof. 29! zu gr. lóc m., lat. virus „Gift“, violö s. eis. 796 vipera — vir. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. viola, p. 1703]

In the wild

violam Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.413
violae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.19.p4
violis Martial, Epigrammata 10.32.1
violis Prudentius, Cathemerina 10.170
violae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.7.p2
violae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.7.p2

6 of 53 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uiola (scan p. 762; entry #12709).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. viola (scan pp. 1703-1704; entry #3265).

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.