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caespes

caespes · m

A turf

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Peristephanon Liber 6 · 3.42/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k

Densest 12 of 63 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. caespĕs — Lewis & Short

caespĕs (not cespes), ĭtis, m.caesus, caedo.

I A turf, sod as cut out: caespes est terra in modum lateris caesa cum herba, sive frutex recisus et truncus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 45 Müll.: caespes xorto/plinqos, xorto/bwlos, pli/nqos, Gloss.: non esse arma caespites, neque glebas, * Cic. Caecin. 21, 60.— Used for altars, mounds (of tombs), for covering cottages, huts, etc., Hor. C. 1, 19, 13; Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 9; id. M. 4, 753; 7, 240; 15, 573; Verg. A. 3, 304; Tac. G. 27; id. A. 1, 62; Verg. E. 1, 69 Voss; Sen. Ep. 8, 5; Luc. 1, 512; 3, 387; Suet. Aug. 24.—

B Meton.

1 A cot, hut, hovel, shed: nec fortuitum spernere caespitem, Hor. C. 2, 15, 17.—

2 An altar: positusque carbo Caespite vivo, Hor. C. 3, 8, 4; Juv. 12, 2; Tac. H. 4, 53; App. Flor. n. 1, —

3 Any object of similar form, a knot, knob, Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 153.—

4 A clump, group of plants, Plin. 21, 7, 20, § 43; Verg. G. 4, 273 Forbig. ad loc.—

II In gen.

A A grassy field, a green field, turf, Verg. A. 11, 566: de caespite virgo se levat, Ov. M. 2, 427; 4, 301; 10, 556; 13, 931: sedere in caespite nudo, Suet. Tib. 18; Stat. Th. 12, 328; Petr. 120, 72; Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 128; 17, 4, 3, § 26.—

B Late Lat., the earth, ground, in gen., Avien. Perieg. 227; 388.

2. caespes — Walde–Hofmann

caespes, -itis m. „Rasenstück, Rasen“, auch „Wurzel-, Pflanzenknäuel“, „Erdschollen“, „Knopf (an der Rebe)“, spätl. „Getreidefeld, Strauch, Zweig" (seit Cic. und Caes., rom., ebenso caespitó, -äre „straucheln, stolpern“ seit Ps. Quint.; incaespitätor „Strauchler, vom Pferd" Serv. s. zur Bed. [,über Wurzelknäuel stolpern*] Fay Cl. Quart. 1, 28, Brüch Misc. Schuchardt 48, Bücheler Kl. Schr. II 270): o. kassepatar etwa … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. caespes, p. 166]

In the wild

Caespes Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
caespite Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.371
cespite Lucan, Pharsalia 4.414
caespites Tacitus, Annales 1.p18
caespite Prudentius, Cathemerina 10.123
caespitum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.14.p1

6 of 148 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. caespes (scan p. 109; entry #1515).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. caespes (scan p. 166; entry #500). Root candidates: *kaispo-, *spit-, *sgäip-.

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