The corpus record — Latin

ebur

ebur · n

ivory

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Epistulae 4 · 4.04/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Silvae 9 · 3.59/10k
Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Carmina 6 · 2.68/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k

Densest 12 of 61 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕbur — Lewis & Short

ĕbur, ŏris (cf. n.Copt. ebu; cf. Sanscr. ibhas, elephant; whence Gr. e)le/fas, Semit. article el being prefixed,

Quint. 1, 6, 22 sq.),

I ivory.

I Prop., Cic. Leg. 2, 18; id. Brut. 73 fin.; id. Par. 1, 3; Quint. 2, 21, 9; Verg. G. 1, 57; id. A. 10, 137; 12, 68; Hor. C. 1, 31, 6; id. Ep. 2, 1, 96 et saep.—Prov.: ebur atramento candefacere, v. atramentum.—

II Meton.

A Things made of ivory. So of statues, Verg. G. 1, 480; Ov. M. 15, 792; of the tibia, Verg. G. 2, 193; of a scabbard, Ov. M. 4, 148; of the sella curulis, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 54; Ov. F. 5, 51; id. Pont. 4, 5, 18.—*

B An elephant, Juv. 12, 112.

In the wild

ebur Tacitus, Annales 2.p61
ebori Statius, Silvae 2.4.12
ebore Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.38
ebore Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.124
ebore Suetonius, Divus Titus 2.1
ebur Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.90.33

6 of 172 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. ebur (scan p. 214; entry #3314).

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