The corpus record — Latin

bitumen

bitumen · n

bitumen

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
De Architectura 10 · 1.73/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 6 · 0.81/10k
De Medicina 8 · 0.78/10k
Naturalis Historia 29 · 0.73/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

bĭtūmen — Lewis & Short

bĭtūmen, ĭnis, n.cf. Sanscr. gatu, gum,

I bitumen, a kind of mineral pitch found in Palestine and Babylon, Gr. a)/tfaltos, Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 178 sq.; Tac. H. 5, 6; 5, 17; Just. 1, 2, 7; Vitr. 2, 6; Lucr. 6, 808; Verg. G. 3, 451; Ov. M. 9, 660; 14, 792; Vitr. 8, 3, 1 sqq.: Judaicum, Veg. 1, 20, 1; 3, 56, 2; 5, 83, 3; 6, 14, 1: Apollonium, id. 6, 14, 1; Vulg. Gen. 6, 14.—For magical or religious use, Verg. E. 8, 82; Hor. Epod. 5, 82; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 325.

In the wild

bituminis Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.8
bitumine Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.35.p57
bituminis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.15.p2
bitumen Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.15
bituminis Celsus, De Medicina 5.20.p2
bitumine Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.825

6 of 80 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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