The corpus record — Latin

fucus

drone, gadfly, hornet

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 3 · 2.74/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fucus — de Vaan

fucus 'drone, gadfly, hornet' [m. ο] (Ρ1.+) PIE *bhoi-ko-? *bhou-ko-? IE cognates: Olr. bech 'bee' [m.] < *bheko-; OPr. bitte, Lith. bite, Latv. bite < *bhi-t-, OCS bbcela, tbcela 'bee' < *bhi-kel-eh2; OIc. by [nJ, MoDu, bij9 OHG bini [n.], OHG bia [f.], OE beo 'bee' [f] < *bVon-3 *bhi-ni-, OE — [de Vaan, s.v. fucus, p. 259]

2. fūcus — Lewis & Short

fūcus, i, m.,

I a drone, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 19; Verg. G. 4, 244; 168; id. A. 1, 435; Col. 9, 15, 5.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. fucus (scan p. 259; entry #636). Root candidates: *bheko-.

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