The corpus record — Latin

ferrugo

ferrugo · f

iron-rust

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ferrūgo — Lewis & Short

ferrūgo, ĭnis, f.ferrum; like aerugo from aes,

I iron-rust (syn.: aerugo, rubigo).

I Prop., Plin. 23, 8, 79, § 151.—

B Transf., the color of iron-rust, a darkred, dark-chestnut, a dusky color: nuclei vestiti aliā ferruginis tunicā, Plin. 15, 10, 9, § 35; also sea-green: viridis ferrugine barba, Ov. M. 13, 960: excutit obscurā tinctas ferrugine habenas, id. ib. 5, 404; 15, 789: sol caput obscurā nitidum ferrugine texit, gloom, Verg. G. 1, 467: maesta obtenta Ditis ferrugine regna, id. Cul. 273: pectus manu ferrugine tincta Tangit, Ov. M. 2, 798: pictus acu chlamydem et ferrugine clarus Hiberā, purple, Verg. A. 9, 582; cf.: peregrinā ferrugine clarus et ostro, id. ib. 11, 772: violas ferrugine pingit, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 93.—*

II Trop., envy (cf. aerugo): animusque mala ferrugine purus, Auct. Pan. ad Pis. 95.

In the wild

ferrugine Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.9.p5
ferrugine Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.227
ferruginis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.10
ferrugine Tibullus, Elegiae 1.4.43
ferrugine Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 273
ferrugo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.8.p6

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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