The corpus record — Latin

fumosus

fumosus · adj

full of smoke

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fūmōsus — Lewis & Short

fūmōsus, a, um, adj.id.,

I full of smoke, smoking, smoky, smoked (class.).

I Lit.: ligna, Cato, R. R. 130: flamma, id. ib. 38, 4: fax, Petr. 97: December (because many fires are then made), Mart. 5, 30, 5: paries, well smoked, smoky, Petr. 135: imagines (with age), Cic. Pis. 1, 1; cf.: magistri equitum, Juv. 8, 8: perna, smoke-dried, Hor. S. 2, 2, 117: Falerni, kept in the smokechamber (fumarium) to ripen, Tib. 2, 1, 27; so, cadus, Ov. F. 5, 518.—

II Transf., smelling of smoke, smoky: defrutum, Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 319.

In the wild

fumosis Ausonius, Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 8.21
fumosa Persius, Saturae 1.72
fumosis Ovid, Amores 2.13.23
fumosos Juvenal, Saturae 3.8.8
fumosa Claudian, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.196
fumosis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.44.5

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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