The corpus record — Latin

feretrum

feretrum · n

a litter

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2 · 0.28/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant

fĕrē^trum — Lewis & Short

fĕrē^trum, i, n., = fe/retron,

I a litter, bier, etc., for carrying trophies in a triumphal procession, the bodies of the dead, their effigies, etc.; pure Lat. ferculum (mostly poet.): quis opima volenti Dona Jovi portet ferĕtro suspensa cruento, Sil. 5, 168; 17, 630: jamque rogum quassasque faces ferĕtrumque parabant, bier, Ov. M. 3, 508; so id. ib. 14, 747 (ferētro); Verg. A. 6, 222 (ferētro); 11, 64 (ferētrum); Val. Fl. 5, 11; Sil. 10, 567; Grat. Cyneg. 488; Inscr. Orell. 4370 al.; cf.: ubi lectus mortui fertur, dicebant feretrum nostri, Graeci fe/retron, Varr. L. L. 5, § 166 Müll.

In the wild

feretrum Statius, Thebais 6.55
feretrum Tertullian, De Patientia 14
feretrum Vergil, Aeneid 11.64
feretro Ovid, Fasti 4.851
feretro Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.11
feretro Silius Italicus, Punica 17.629

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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