The corpus record — Latin

fomes

fomes · m

kindling-wood

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 3 · 4.69/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 2 · 0.81/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fōmes — Lewis & Short

fōmes, ĭtis, m.foveo,

I kindling-wood, touch-wood, tinder.

I Lit.: silici scintillam excudit Achates . . . rapuitque in fomite flammam, Verg. A. 1, 176; Luc. 8, 776; Plin. 16, 40, 77, § 208.—

B Trop. (postclass.): fomes et incitabulum ingenii virtutisque, Gell. 15, 2, 3: peccati, Prud. Apoth. 942: invidiae, Vulg. Gen. 37, 8.—

II Transf.: fomites sunt assulae ex arboribus, dum caeduntur, excussae: dictae, quod in eo opere occupati cibis potuque confoventur, etc., Paul. ex Fest. p. 85 Müll.; cf.: Fomes pele/khma, Gloss. Labb.

In the wild

fomitem Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.860
fomite Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.188
fomite Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.927
fomite Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.pr.25
fomes Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.557
fomite Vergil, Aeneid 1.176

6 of 21 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. fomes (scan p. 268; entry #4204).

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