The corpus record — Latin

camelus

camelus · m

a camel

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Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 5 · 8.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Naturalis Historia 15 · 0.38/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cămēlus — Lewis & Short

cămēlus, i, m. (

I fem., Plin. 8, 18, 26, § 67; 11, 37, 62, § 164; App. M. 7, p. 194, 5; Vulg. Gen. 32, 15; Paul. Nol. Ep. 29, 2), = ka/mhlos, a camel, with either one or two humps, Plin. 11, 37, 62, § 164; Varr. L. L. 5, § 100 Müll., Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122; Liv. 37, 40, 12; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 195; Tac. A. 15, 12; cf. camela.

In the wild

camelos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.19.p8
camelo Horace, Epistulae 2.1.195
camelos Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.6.9
camelorum Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 31
camelorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.9.p6
camelisque Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.41.11

6 of 34 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. camélus (scan p. 113; entry #1604).

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