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caementum

caementum · n

A rough

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 5 · 3.2/10k
De Architectura 16 · 2.77/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 1 · 0.88/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

caementum — Lewis & Short

caementum, i, n. (access. form cae-menta, ae, f., like armenta, ae, to armentum, Enn. ap.

Non. p. 196, 30, or Trag. v. 422 Vahl.; v 373 Rib.) [contr. from caedimentum, from caedo; hence Engl. cement].

I A rough, unhewn stone, as it comes from the quarry, a quarry-stone, used for walls.

A Plur. (so most freq.), Vitr. 1, 2, 8; 7, 6, 1; Cato, R. R. 38, 3; Varr. ap. Non. p. 96, 5 al.: in eam insulam materiem, calcem, caementa, arma convexit, Cic. Mil. 27, 74; so id. Div. 2, 47, 99; id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 7; Liv. 36, 22, 11; 21, 11, 8; Hor. C. 3, 1, 35; Tac. G. 16.—

B Sing., Vitr. 1, 5, 8; 8, 6, 14; Tac. Or. 20; Plin. 35, 14, 48, § 169; Mart. 9, 76, 1.—

II Caementa marmorea, pieces that fly off from marble in working, chips of marble: caementa marmorea, sive assulae, Vitr. 7, 6, 1.

In the wild

caementi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.22.p3
caementis Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.12.5
caementis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.14.1
caementis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.1.2
caementum Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.9.7
caementis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.22.p8

6 of 48 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. caementum (scan p. 108; entry #1494).

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