The corpus record — Latin

elumbis

elumbis · adj

hip-shot

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k

What it meant

ē-lumbis — Lewis & Short

ē-lumbis, e, adj.lumbus,

I hip-shot, having the hip dislocated.

I Lit.: evulso lumbo, Paul. ex Fest. p. 76, 13 Müll. (dub.). —

II Trop., of style: Ciceronem male audisse a Bruto, ut ipsius verbis utar, tamquam fractum atque elumbem, i. e. enervated, Tac. Or. 18.—*

III Transf.: virus, i. e. that weakens, enervates, Prud. stef. 2, 216.

In the wild

elumbem Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 18.6
elumbem Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.314

Where it came from

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