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bruma

bruma · f

the shortest day in the year

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Where it lives

Precationes 2 · 43.2/10k
Eclogarum Liber 3 · 10.96/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Epigrammata 22 · 3.91/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k

Densest 12 of 61 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. brūma — Lewis & Short

brūma, ae, f.for brevima, breuma = brevissima: dicta bruma quod brevissimus tunc dies est, Varr. L. L. 6, § 8 Müll.: bruma a brevitate dierum dicta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 31 Müll.; cf. Isid. Orig. 5, 35, 6; Gesn. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 106; Ruhnk. ad Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 28.

I Lit., the shortest day in the year, the winter solstice, * Lucr. 5, 746; Varr. L. L. l. l.; Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 28: circa brumam serendum non esse, Plin. 18, 24, 56, § 204 al.—Plur.: solis accessus discessusque solstitiis brumisque cognosci, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 19; 2, 19, 50; Ov. F. 1, 163.—

II Transf.

A In gen., the winter time, winter (mostly poet.): musculorum jecuscula brumā dicuntur augeri, Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33: novissimus dies brumae, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 191: ver proterit aestas, Interitura, simul Pomifer auctumnus fruges effuderit, et mox Bruma recurrit iners, Hor. C. 4, 7, 12; Phaedr. 4, 23, 19: serite hordea campis Usque sub extremum brumae intractabilis imbrem, even to the last rain of rough winter, Verg. G. 1, 211; 3, 321.—So, horrida cano gelu, Verg. G. 3, 443: frigida, id. A. 2, 472: hiberna, Tib. 1, 4, 5; Ov. Ib. 37; Prop. 1, 8, 9: tepidae, Hor. C. 2, 6, 18: nives illinet agris, id. Ep. 1, 7, 10: per brumam, id. ib. 1, 11, 19: brumae tempore, Juv. 3, 102; Val. Fl. 5, 602; Stat. S. 1, 3, 89 al.—

B In the most gen. sense (pars pro toto), poet., a year; plur., Manil. 3, 607; Mart. 4, 40, 5; 10, 104, 9.

2. brüma — Walde–Hofmann

brüma, -ae f. , Wintersonnenwende, Winter, Kälte“ Ceit Ter., rom.; davon -äria, -ae f. ,Lówenblatt*): als „Zeit der kürzesten Tage“ (sc. dies oder tempestüs; s. Paul. Fest. 31, Varro L16,8 Superl. zu brevis, *brevi-ma, *breu-ma (nicht *brehu-md mit Ostho a. O.); s. Pott KZ. 26, 148, Osthoff MU. 5, 91, Sommer Hdb.? 80, Götze IF. 41, 117. — Av. mrüra bleibt fern (Bartholomae Airan. W. 1197 gegen BB. 15, 36?). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. brüma, p. 148]

In the wild

brumae Martial, Epigrammata 5.34.5
bruma Martial, Epigrammata 10.5.6
bruma Claudian, Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1.135
bruma Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.47.p1
brumamque Juvenal, Saturae 5.14.273
brumae Martial, Epigrammata 10.15.7

6 of 215 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. brüma (scan p. 148; entry #448).

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