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caminus

caminus · m

a furnace

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Carmina 4 · 1.78/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cămīnus — Lewis & Short

cămīnus, i, m., = h( ka/minos [Germ. Kamin; Fr. chemine/e; Engl. chimney],

I a furnace.

I A smelting-furnace for the working of metals, a forge, Ov. M. 7, 106; Pers. 5, 10; Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 69; 35, 6, 16, § 35: crescunt (patrimonia) incude assiduā semperque ardente camino, i. e., by incessant labor, Juv. 14, 118.—

B Poet., the forge or smithy of Vulcan and the Cyclopes, under Ætna, Verg. A. 3, 580; 6, 630; 8, 418; Ov. F. 4, 473; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 237.—

II A furnace for heating an apartment, Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 19; Suet. Vit. 8.—Hence,

B Meton. = ignis, fire: camino luculento uti, Cic. Fam. 7, 10, 2; Hor. S. 1, 5, 81; Sen. Thyest. 766.—

C Prov.: oleum addere camino, to pour oil upon the fire, to aggravate an evil, Hor. S. 2, 3, 321.

2. caminus — Walde–Hofmann

caminus, - m. „Feuerstätte, Esse, Schmelzofen, Herd, Kamin* (seit Cato, rom.): aus gr. xdptvoc f. da. (Saalfeld), s. camurus. — Aus lat.-rom. camtnus stammen u.a. mhd., nhd. kamín, älter alem. kém:, bair. kémich, ferner bulg. komin „Rauchfang“ usw. (Kluge s. v., Berneker 553, Schrader RL. II? 128) — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. caminus, p. 179]

In the wild

camini Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.106
camino Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.3.321
caminorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.7.p3
camino Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.189
caminos Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
caminis Seneca, Thyestes 1

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. caminus (scan p. 114; entry #1625).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. caminus (scan p. 179; entry #531).

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