1. densus — de Vaan
densus 'dense, thick, closely packed' [adj. o/a] (PL+) Derivatives: densare 'to thicken, condense' (Enn.+), densere 'id/ (Lucr.+); — [de Vaan, s.v. densus, p. 181]
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densus
densus
dense, thick, closely packed
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- Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
- Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
- Georgicon 20 · 14.13/10k
- Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 11.48/10k
- Hamartigenia 5 · 7.82/10k
- Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
- Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
- Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
- Eclogues 3 · 6.61/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
- Aeneid 36 · 5.68/10k
Densest 12 of 87 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. densus — Lewis & Short
densus, a, um, adj.kindred with dasu/s, daulo/s (i. e. dasulo/s); cf. Lat. dumus, old form dusmus, and dumetum,
I thick, dense, i. e. consisting of parts crowded together. opp. to rarus (on the contrary, crassus, thick, is opp. to thin, fluid; and spissus, close, compact, with the predominant idea of impenetrability; cf. also: angustus, artus, solidus—class. and freq., esp. in poets and historians; in Cic. very rare).
I Lit.
1 In space:
ne dum variantia rerum Tanta queat densis rarisque ex ignibus esse,Lucr. 1, 654; cf. Verg. G. 1, 419 (for which densatus et laxatus aër, Quint. 5, 9, 16); and:
(terra) Rara sit an supra morem si densa requiras ... Densa magis Cereri, rarissima quaeque Lyaeo,Verg. G. 2, 227 sq.: densa et glutinosa terra, Col. praef. § 24: silva, poëta ap. Cic. Att. 12, 15; cf.:
densiores silvae,Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 2:
densissimae silvae,id. ib. 4, 38, 3:
lucus densissimae opacitatis,Front. Strat. 1, 11, 10:
denso corpore nubes,Lucr. 6, 361; cf.:
denso agmine,id. 6, 100; so,
agmen (sc. navium),Verg. A. 5, 834:
densum umeris vulgus,Hor. Od. 2, 13, 32 et saep.:
tunicae,Plin. 11, 23, 27, § 77:
zmaragdi,id. 37, 5, 18, § 68:
litus,sandy, Ov. M. 2, 576; cf. Verg. G. 2, 275:
aequor,i. e. frozen. Luc. 2, 640:
aër,Hor. Od. 2, 7, 14; cf.
caelum,Cels. 1 praef.; 3, 22:
nimbi,Ov. M. 1, 269:
caligo,Verg. A. 12, 466; cf.:
densissima nox,pitch-dark night, Ov. M. 15, 31: umbra, Catull. 65, 13; Hor. Od. 1, 7, 20 et saep.—
Without distinction, corresp. with crassus,Lucr. 6, 246 al.—
b Poet. with abl., thickly set with, covered with, full of: loca silvestribus sepibus densa, poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 42 fin.; cf.:
specus virgis ac vimine,Ov. M. 3, 29:
vallis piceis et acuta cupressu,id. ib. 3, 155:
Thybris verticibus,id. F. 6, 502:
ficus pomis,id. ib. 2, 253:
corpora setis,id. M. 13, 846; cf. id. Am. 3, 1, 32:
femina crinibus emptis,id. A. A. 3, 165:
funale lampadibus,id. M. 12, 247: trames caligine opaca (coupled with obscurus), id. ib. 10, 54 et saep.—
B Transf., of the parts themselves which are crowded together, thick, close, set close:
superiorem partem collis densissimis castris (sc. trinis) compleverant,pitched very near together, Caes. B. G. 7, 46, 3:
sepes,id. ib. 2, 22:
frutices,Ov. M. 1, 122:
ilex,id. F. 2, 165 et saep.:
hostes,Verg. A. 2, 511:
ministri,id. M. 2, 717:
densior suboles,Verg. G. 3, 308:
dens (pectinis),Tib. 1, 9, 68:
comae,Ov. Am. 1, 14, 42; cf.
pilae,id. F. 2, 348 et saep.— Poet.:
densorum turba malorum,Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 41.—
2 In time, of things which take place in close succession, thick, frequent, continuous (mostly poet.):
ictus,Verg. A. 5, 459; cf.
plagae,Hor. Od. 3, 5, 31:
Aquilo,strong, powerful, Verg. G. 3, 196:
silentia,deep, profound, Val. Fl. 3, 604:
amores,Verg. G. 4, 347:
pericula,Ov. P. 4, 7, 15:
usus,id. ib. 4, 3, 15:
ictus,Amm. 15, 5, 31. —
II Trop. of speech, condensed, concise:
vox atrox in ira, et aspera ac densa,coarse, Quint. 11, 3, 63:
tanta vis in eo (sc. Demosthene) tam densa omnia, etc.,id. 10, 1, 76; cf. transf. to the writer himself: densior ille (sc. Demosthenes), hic (sc. Cicero) copiosior, ib. § 106: densus et brevis et semper instans sibi Thucydides, ib. § 73: (Euripides) sententiis densus, ib. § 68.— Adv.: densē (very rare).
1 In space, thickly, closely, close together:
caesae alni,Plin. 16, 37, 67, § 173:
calcatum quam densissime,Vitr. 5, 12 med.:
milites densius se commovebant,Amm. 24, 6, 8.—
2 (Acc. to no. I. B. 2.) In time, frequently, rapidly, one after the other:
quod in perpetuitate dicendi eluceat aliquando, idem apud alios densius, apud alios fortasse rarius,Cic. Or. 2, 7:
nulla tamen subeunt mihi tempora densius istis,Ov. P. 1, 9, 11:
replicatis quaestionibus dense,Amm. 29, 3 fin.
3. dénsus — Walde–Hofmann
dénsus, -a, -um „dicht, dicht gedrängt, dicht aneinandergereiht* (als rhet. Fachwort Übersetzung von gr. mukvóc, Münscher BPhW. 1919, 202 f.; seit Enn. und Plaut., rom., ebenso densäre „verdichten, dicht anreihen“ seit Enn. [-ätus Amm.]; vgl. densere seit Lucr. (s. unten), -4Hó seit Plin., -itäs seit Liv.; aus densus entl. kymr. dtwys „fest*, Pedersen 1209, Meillet-Vendryes 87): gr. dao0g (wohl *dsds, s. u.; davon … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. dénsus, p. 373]
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. densus (scan p. 181; entry #421).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. dénsus (scan pp. 373-374; entry #907). Root candidates: *dens-, *dent-, *dntu-.
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