The corpus record — Latin

farrago

farrago · f

mixed fodder for cattle

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

farrāgo — Lewis & Short

farrāgo, ĭnis, f.id.,

I mixed fodder for cattle, mash.

I Prop.: farrago appellatur id, quod ex pluribus satis pabuli causa datur jumentis, Paul. ex Fest. p. 91, 14 Müll.; Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 5; Plin. 18, 16, 41, § 142; Verg. G. 3, 205; Nemes. Cyneg. 283.—

II Transf. *

A A medley, hodge-podge: nostri libelli, Juv. 1, 86.—

B A trifle: tenuis, Pers. 5, 77.

In the wild

farraginem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.10.24
farrago Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.7.2
farrago Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.18.p44
Farrago Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.16.p3
farragine Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes praef.p42
farrago Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.16.p1

6 of 12 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.