The corpus record — Latin

foramen

foramen · n

an opening

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Where it lives

De Architectura 128 · 22.2/10k
Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
De agri cultura 11 · 7.03/10k
De Medicina 51 · 4.98/10k
De Rerum Natura 17 · 3.49/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 20 · 2.54/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fŏrāmen — Lewis & Short

fŏrāmen, ĭnis, n.id.,

I an opening or aperture produced by boring, a hole (rare but class.): neque porta neque ullum foramen erat, qua posset eruptio fieri, outlet, Sisenn. ap. Non. 113, 27: foramina parietum et fenestrarum, Col. 9, 15, 10: inventa sunt in eo (scuto) foramina CCXXX., * Caes. B. C. 3, 53, 4: tibia tenuis simplexque foramine pauco, Hor. A. P. 203; Ov. M. 4, 122: alii (scarabei) focos crebris foraminibus excavant, Plin. 11, 28, 34, § 98: foramina illa, quae patent ad animum a corpore (shortly before, viae quasi quaedam sunt ad oculos, ad aures perforatae; and: quasi fenestrae sint animi), * Cic. Tusc. 1, 20, 47. —

II Transf. in gen., an opening, hole, cave (late Lat.): petrae, Vulg. Exod. 33, 22; id. Jer. 13, 4.

Where it came from

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