The corpus record — Latin

ferrugineus

ferrugineus · adj

of the color of iron-rust

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Miles Gloriosus 2 · 1.58/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ferrūgĭnĕus — Lewis & Short

ferrūgĭnĕus (ferrūgĭnus, a, um, adj.id..

Lucr. 4, 76),

I Of color, of the color of iron-rust, dark-red, dusky, ferruginous: palliolum habeas ferrugineum, nam is colos thalassicust, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 43: vela lutea, russa, ferrugina, Lucr. 4, 76: cymba, Verg. A. 6, 303 (= kuane/h, for which: caerulea puppis, id. ib. 6, 410): hyacinthi, id. G. 4, 183: frons anguis, Stat. Th. 1, 600: nemus (inferorum), id. ib. 2, 13; cf.: amictus Plutonis, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 275.—

II Of taste, like iron, ferruginous: sapor fontis, Plin. 31, 2, 8, § 12.

In the wild

ferrugineam Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.4
ferrugina Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.76
ferrugineas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p8
ferruginei Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.2.p3
ferrugineum Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.4
ferrugineo Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.355

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Where it came from

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