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virectum

virectum · n

a place overgrown with grass

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

vĭrectum — Lewis & Short

vĭrectum (less correctly vĭrētum), i, n.vireo,

I a place overgrown with grass, a green place, greensward, sod, turf: viretum, a)nqw=n to/pos, Gloss.; mostly in plur.: virecta nemorum, Verg. A. 6, 638: amoena virecta, of Paradise, Prud. Cath. 3, 101: latissima, Apol. M. 4, p. 143, 2: patentia, id. ib. 8, p. 209 fin.; 10, p. 263, 24.—

II Transf., greenness, in gen.: Scythidis (i. e. smaragdi), Mart. Cap. 1, § 67.

In the wild

virecta Claudian, Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2.31
uirectis Appendix Vergiliana, Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 27
uirecta Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.9.p3
virecta Prudentius, Cathemerina 3.101
virecta Vergil, Aeneid 6.638
virecta Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.795

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Where it came from

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