The corpus record — Latin

fabularis

fabularis · adj

fabulous

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Epidicus 2 · 3.07/10k
Rudens 3 · 2.53/10k
Asinaria 2 · 2.48/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Trinummus 2 · 2.03/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Miles Gloriosus 2 · 1.58/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fābŭlāris — Lewis & Short

fābŭlāris, e, adj.1. fabula, II.,

I fabulous = fabulosus: historia fabularis, fabulous history, legendary tale, Suet. Tib. 70; Censor. de Die Nat. 4.

In the wild

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.