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delubrum

delubrum · n

a temple, shrine, sanctuary

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.21/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 2 · 6.42/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
Octavius 4 · 3.45/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 2 · 3.44/10k
In L. Catilinam 4 · 3.19/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
de Natura Deorum 10 · 2.8/10k
Fasti 8 · 2.57/10k

Densest 12 of 67 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. dēlūbrum — Lewis & Short

dēlūbrum, i, n.de-luo, the place of expiation,

I a temple, shrine, sanctuary (class., esp. freq. in poets and in elevated prose; usually in the plur.; for syn. cf.: templum, aedes, fanum, cella, sacellum, sacrarium).

(a) Plur.: CONSTRVCTA A PATRIBVS DELVBRA IN VRBIBVS HABENTO, etc., Cic. Leg. 2, 8: est mihi tecum pro aris et focis certamen et pro deorum templis atque delubris, id. N. D. 3, 40; cf. coupled with fana, id. Rab. perd. 10 fin.: ante deum delubra, Lucr. 2, 352; 5, 309; 1165; Verg. G. 3, 23; id. A. 2, 225; 248; Hor. Od. 3, 5, 19; id. S. 1, 6, 35 et saep.; Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1 fin.: Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 14; id. Arch. 11, 27; id. Rep. 1, 26; Sall. C. 11, 6; Plin. Pan. 3 fin.: idolorum, Vulg. Isa. 65, 4 al.—

(b) Sing.: noctu audita ex delubro vox est, etc., Liv. 29, 18: so coupled with templa, id. 30, 20: Smyrnaei delubrum ejus (sc. Homeri) in oppido dedicaverunt, Cic. Arch. 8 fin.; so Quirini, id. Rep. 2, 10 fin.: ex alto delubri culmine, Verg. A. 2, 410: Martis, Suet. Vit. 8.

2. délübrum — Walde–Hofmann

délübrum, -; n. „Tempel, Heiligtum als Sühn- und Reinigungsort^ (seit Plaut): von delus ,wasche ab“ wie pollübrum ,Waschbecken* zu *pol-Iuö (s. lavo), Suff. -Ahlom oder -dhrom (LindsayNohl 378, Leumann-Stolz* 219); urspr. die bei dem Heiligtum gelegen: Stelle mit fließendem Wasser für die vor der Opferhandlung erforderliche Waschung (Samter Volkskunde im altsprehl. Unt. 1 51; vgl. Cine. frg. Serv. Aen. 2, 225 al). — … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. délübrum, p. 370]

In the wild

delubri Tacitus, Historiae 5.14
delubris Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 40.2
delubris Ovid, Fasti 2.61
delubra Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.4.12
delubrum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.4.p1
delubra Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p31

6 of 237 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. délübrum (scan pp. 370-371; entry #903). Root candidates: *de-.

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