The corpus record — Latin

flabra

flabra · n

blasts

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De Rerum Natura 6 · 1.23/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

flābra — Lewis & Short

flābra, ōrum, n.id.,

I blasts, esp. of wind; or, concr., breezes, winds (poet.): flabraque ventorum violento turbine vexant, Lucr. 5, 217: Etesia Aquilonum, id. 5, 742; 6, 730: Boreae, Prop. 2, 27, 12 (3, 23, 12 M.): lenia Austri, Val. Fl. 6, 665: freta spirantibus incita flabris, Lucr. 6, 428; cf. id. 6, 719: non hiemes illam, non flabra neque imbres Convellunt, Verg. G. 2, 293.

In the wild

flabris Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 1.15
flabris Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.5.7
flabris Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.665
flabris Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.275
flabra Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 1.123
flabris Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.205

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. flabra (scan p. 265; entry #4143).

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.