The corpus record — Latin

bulbus1

bulbus1 · m

A bulb

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
De Re Coquinaria 10 · 6.38/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 12 · 5.78/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Naturalis Historia 48 · 1.21/10k
De Medicina 10 · 0.98/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. bulbus — Lewis & Short

bulbus (bulbŏs), i, m.bolbo/s.

I A bulb, bulbous root (tulips, hyacinths, lilies, etc.), Plin. 19, 4, 21, § 61; cf. Cels. 2, 18; Plin. 17, 20, 33, § 144; 21, 5, 11, § 24; 22, 22, 32, § 67 sq.—

II An onion; a garden vegetable of several kinds, among which the Megarean was the best known, Cato, R. R. 8, 2; Ov. R. Am. 797; Col. 10, 106; 4, 32, 2; Plin. 19, 5, 30, § 93; in Apic. 8, 7, and in Edict. Diocl. p. 16, called bulbus fabrilis.

2. Bulbus — Lewis & Short

Bulbus, i, m.,

I a Roman name, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32, § 79.—With a play on 1. bulbus, Cic. Clu. 26, 72.

3. bulbus — Walde–Hofmann

bulbus, -i m. „Zwiebel, Bolle, Wurzelknolle* (seit Plaut, spätl. auch , Augapfel*, s. Goldberger Cl. 18, 28%): wohl entlehnt (nicht urverw., Curtius 202, Saalfeld, Schrader Sprachvergl? 428) aus gr. foABóc m. „Zwiebel, Bolle* (BoAßivn „weiße Zwiebelart“; dazu BóA- $ırov att. BöAıtov „Mist“, danach BoAedıv „Mistgrube“?); redupl. aus *bol- wie vl. auch ai. bálba-jah „Eleusine indica, eine Grasart“, wenn „aus … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bulbus, p. 154]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. bulbus (scan p. 102; entry #1377).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bulbus (scan p. 154; entry #462). Root candidates: *bol-, *bul-, *bamb-.

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