The corpus record — Latin

elleborus

elleborus · m

hellebore

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Where it lives

Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Menaechmi 2 · 2.11/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Noctes Atticae 8 · 0.72/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ellĕbŏrus — Lewis & Short

ellĕbŏrus (hell-), i, m., and ellĕ-bŏrum (hell-), i, n.,

I hellebore, in pure Lat. veratrum, a plant much used by the ancients as a remedy for mental diseases, epilepsy, etc.; the best grew on the island of Anticyra, in the Aegean Sea, Pl. 25, 5, 21; id. 25, 13, 94; Gell. 17, 15; Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 89; Verg. G. 3, 451; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 137; Cels. 2, 13; Sen. Ep. 83, 25.

In the wild

elleboro Tertullian, De Spectaculis 27.1
elleboro Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.15.1
ellebori Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.15.4
Elleborum Plautus, Menaechmi 5.5
ellebori Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.15.7
Elleborum Persius, Saturae 3.63

6 of 32 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. elleborus (scan p. 218; entry #3375).

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