The corpus record — Latin

cedrus

cedrus · f

the cedar

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Naturalis Historia 43 · 1.08/10k
Tristia 2 · 0.88/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k

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

What it meant

1. cē^drus — Lewis & Short

cē^drus, i, f., = ke/dros,

I the cedar, juniper-tree: Juniperus oxycedrus, Linn., which has a very fragrant wood, and furnishes an oil that protects from decay, Plin. 13, 5, 11, § 52; 16, 40, 76, § 203; Col. 9, 4, 3; Vitr. 2, 9, 13.—Of cedar-wood, Verg. G. 3, 414; id. A. 7, 13; 7, 178; Curt. 5, 7, 5; 8, 10, 8; Suet. Calig. 37.—Hence,

II Meton., cedar-oil (with which the backs of books were usually anointed to preserve them from moths and decay): liber flavus cedro, Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 13: perunctus cedro, Mart. 3, 2, 7; cf. Becker, Gall. 2, p. 219.— Hence, poet.: carmina linenda cedro, i. e. worthy of immortality, Hor. A. P. 332: cedro digna locutus, Pers. 1, 42.

2. cedrus — Walde–Hofmann

cedrus, -i £. „Zeder, Zederwacholder* (seit Sall): aus gr. xébpoq f. „Wachol erart, Zeder", dies als „Räucherholz* zur Wz. *ged- „rauchen* (verschieden von der Sippe von candeö, s. d. und catanus). Vgl. air. — Walde-P. 1385, Petersson Heterokl. 104ff,, Brüch IF. 200 f. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cedrus, p. 226]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cedrus (scan p. 134; entry #1984).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cedrus (scan p. 226; entry #609). Root candidates: *ged-.

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