The corpus record — Latin

aduncus

aduncus · adj

bent in the manner of a hook

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Where it lives

Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Metamorphoses 16 · 2.06/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Fasti 5 · 1.6/10k
Ex Ponto 3 · 1.45/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăd-uncus — Lewis & Short

ăd-uncus, a, um, adj.,

I bent in the manner of a hook, hooked: nasus, a hooked or aquiline nose, * Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 18 (on the contr. reduncus nasus, a snub or turned-up nose): serrula adunca ex omni parte dentium et tortuosa, Cic. Clu. 48: corpuscula curvata et quasi adunca, id. N. D. 1, 24: ungues, id. Tusc. 2, 10: baculum aduncum tenens, quem lituum appellaverunt, Liv. 1, 18: aliis cornua adunca, aliis redunca, Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 125.—Poet.: magni praepes adunca Jovis, i. e. the eagle, Ov. F. 6, 196.—Comp., sup., and adv. not used.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. aduncus (scan p. 770; entry #12860).

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