The corpus record — Latin
XXX
XXX
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- De agri cultura 13 · 8.31/10k
- De Bello Africo 8 · 6.15/10k
- Historiae Alexandri Magni 40 · 5.39/10k
- De Bello Alexandrino 5 · 4.8/10k
- Pro P. Quinctio 4 · 4.63/10k
- De Bello Civili 14 · 4.33/10k
- Naturalis Historia 84 · 2.12/10k
- Adversus Judaeos Liber 2 · 1.78/10k
- Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 12 · 1.7/10k
- De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
- Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
- Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 12 · 1.51/10k
Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.
In the wild
- XXX Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.5.p1
- xxx Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 11.13.3
- XXX Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.12.p5
- XXX Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.59.p1
- XXX Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 3.13.16
- XXX Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.2.p2
6 of 260 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. XXX (scan p. 315; entry #4961). Root candidates: *ghelswo-, *ghelwo-.
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.