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carbo1

piece of charcoal

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Where it lives

Brutus 14 · 5.58/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 2 · 3.63/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 1 · 3.21/10k
De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Lege Agraria 3 · 2.18/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 2 · 2.14/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 17 · 2.14/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k

Densest 12 of 53 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. carbo — de Vaan

carbo 'piece of charcoal' [m. η] (PI.+) Derivatives: carbonanus 'charcoal-burner' (P1.+); carbunculus 'a coal; variety of sandstone; tumour* (P1.+). career The root which Pokorny 1959 postulates as fito burn' is now no longer regarded as a verbal root (Lith. kurti is simply £to make'). The meaning of carbo is quite specific, and the suffix not attested in the words outside Italic which are usually compared (e.g. Go. … — [de Vaan, s.v. carbo, p. 105]

2. carbo — Lewis & Short

carbo, ōnis, m.Sanscr. c)ra, coquere; cf. cremo,

I a coal, charcoal (dead or burning); of dead coals, Cato, R. R. 38 fin.; Plaut. Truc. 5, 12; Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63; Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 8 al.—Of glowing, burning coals, Cato, R. R. 108; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 48; Lucr. 6, 802; Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25; Plin. 2, 20, 18, § 82; 16, 10, 19, § 45; Hor. C. 3, 8, 3 al.—

II Meton.

A From the black color of coals are derived the trop. expressions: impleantur elogiorum meae fores carbonibus, i.e. with scurrilous verses, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 73: sanin cretā an carbone notati? Hor. S, 2, 3, 246; imitated by Pers. 5, 108 (cf. opp. albus): miror Proelia rubrica picta aut carbone, Hor. S. 2, 7, 98.—

B For something of little value; hence prov.: carbonem pro thesauro invenire, to be deceived in one's expectation, Phaedr. 5, 6, 6.—

C A bad tumor, Ser. Samm. 39, 725; cf. carbunculus, C.

3. Carbo — Lewis & Short

Carbo, ōnis, m.,

I a Roman surname in the gens Papiria, Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 3; cf. Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 68 al.

4. carbö — Walde–Hofmann

carbö, -önis m. „Kohle* (aus Holz gebrannt, Cato agr. 38, 4; seit Plaut., rom., ebenso -ónárius m. „Köhler* seit Plaut., -ària „Köhlerei* seit Tert., Demin. -unculus m. „kleine Kohle", übtr. „rötlicher Sandstein“ und als Bed.-Lw. nach gr. ävöpa£ auch „dunkelroter Edelstein wie Rubin, Karfunkel u. dgl.“ und „fressendes Geschwür“ seit Plaut.): wohl aus *car-dhö (a aus idg. .) zu Wz. *ker- in ai. küdayatt, külayati … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. carbö, p. 197]

In the wild

carbonibus Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 31
carbone Juvenal, Saturae 5.13.116
carbonis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.8.p18
carbonibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.6.p11
Carbonem Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.39
Carbonis Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.92

6 of 195 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. carbo (scan pp. 105-106; entry #206). Root candidates: *hurja-, *fcrAr-, *xerzan-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. carbo (scan p. 123; entry #1776). Root candidates: *ker-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. carbö (scan pp. 197-198; entry #565). Root candidates: *ker-, *hurje-, *ger-.

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