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brumalis

brumalis · adj

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Where it lives

de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Ex Ponto 3 · 1.45/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

brūmālis — Lewis & Short

brūmālis, e, adj.bruma.

I Of or pertaining to the winter solstice, or shortest day: dies, Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33; id. Fat. 3: polus, Varr. L. L. 9, § 24 Müll.: signum, Capricorn, Cic. de Or. 3, 45, 178: flexus, the tropic of Capricorn, Lucr. 5, 615; 5, 639: orbis, Cic. N. D. 3, 14, 37: tempus, id. ib. 2, 44, 112: circulus, Plin. 2, 70, 70, § 177: oriens, Col. 1, 6, 1; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 119: occasus, id. l. l.: meridies, Col. 9, 5, 1: revocatio, Cic. Univ. 9: hora, the shortest (since it was the twelfth part of the shortest day), Censor. 16: solstitium, Col. 11, 2, 94.—

II (Acc. to bruma, II.) Wintry, of winter: tempus, Cic. Arat. 61; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95: brumales hiemis menses (hiemis, perh. gloss; cf. shortly after: etiam brumali mense), Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 146: horae, the short winter hours, Ov. M. 4, 199: frigus, Verg. A. 6, 205; Mart. 13, 16, 1: nix, Ov. P. 4, 5, 4: grando, id. ib. 4, 7, 34: venti, Luc. 5, 407.

In the wild

brumali Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.7.1
brumali Cicero, De Fato 5
brumali Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.112
brumali Ovid, Amores 3.6.95
brumali Vergil, Aeneid 6.205
brumali Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.69

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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