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The corpus record — Latin

fabulosus

fabulosus · 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

  • de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 2 · 3.63/10k
  • Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
  • De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
  • Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
  • Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
  • Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
  • Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
  • Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
  • Naturalis Historia 34 · 0.86/10k
  • Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2 · 0.76/10k
  • Res Gestae 9 · 0.71/10k
  • Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fābŭlōsus — Lewis & Short

fābŭlōsus, a, um, adj.fabula, II.,

I fabulous, celebrated in fable (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quae loca fabulosus Lambit Hydaspes, Hor. C. 1, 22, 7: palumbes, id. ib. 3, 4, 9: fab. aut commenticia res, Suet. Caes. 81: carmina Graecorum, rich in fables, Curt. 3, 1, 2: fabulosum arbitror de strigibus, etc., Plin. 11, 39, 95, § 232; cf.: mihi totum de Tyndaridis fabulosum videtur, Quint. 11, 2, 16: fabulosa et externis miraculis adsimulata, Tac. A. 11, 11.— Comp.: anulus, Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 8.—Sup.: mons Atlas, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 5.—Transf., incredible, great, fabulous: cum fabulosa multitudine, Amm. 23, 6, 7.—Adv.: fābŭ-lōse, fabulously: insulae fabulose narratae, Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 143: fabulose multa de hominum aevo referens ... et reliqua fabulosius, id. 7, 48, 49, § 153.—Comp: fabulosius canere, Amm. 23, 6.—Sup.: narrata colonia, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 2.

In the wild

6 of 82 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.