The corpus record — Latin

fungus

fungus, mushroom

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Where it lives

Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Bacchides 2 · 2.03/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Naturalis Historia 35 · 0.88/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 3 · 0.26/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fungus — de Vaan

fungus 'fungus, mushroom' [m. ο] (PL+) Derivatives: fungfnus 'like a mushroom' (PL). IE cognates: Gr. σπόγγος 'fungus', Arm. sownk/g 'mushroom'. Probably a loanword from a non-IE language, borrowed independently into Greek, Latin and Armenian in a form *sphong- vel sim. Bibl.:WHI:566f.,EM262. — [de Vaan, s.v. fungus, p. 264]

2. fungus — Lewis & Short

fungus, i, m.for sfungus, kindred to sfo/ggos, spo/ggos, the initial s suppressed as in fallo, fides, nurus, etc.; cf. funis, and v. the letter S.,

I a mushroom, moril, fungus.

I Lit.: satis esse nobis non magis hoc potis est quam imber fungo, Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 33; Plin. 22, 23, 47, § 96; Hor. S. 2, 4, 20.—

II Transf.

A A soft-pated fellow, a dolt: stulti, stolidi, fatui, fungi, bardi, blenni, buccones, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 2; so id. ib. 2, 3, 49; 4, 7, 23.—

B A fungous excrescence on the human body, Tert. Spect. 23; cf.: fungo simile ulcus, Cels. 6, 18, 11.—On the olive-tree, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 223.—

C A collection of lamp-black on the wick of a candle or lamp, a candle-snuff, Verg. G. 1, 392.

3. fungus — Walde–Hofmann

fungus, -i m. „Erdschwamm, Pilz; Meer-, Baumschwamm; Lichtschnuppe, schwammartiges Geschwür^ (seit Plaut, rom., ebenso idus „schwammig“ Orib.; vgl. -ösus ds. seit Colum., -mus „schwammartig^ Plt., -Alis „Tierart“ Pol Silv): gr. onöyyog (att. auch aqór. yox) m. „Schwamm (zum Abwischen); Drüse am Hals“ (Gwoyyid £. „Schwamm“, woraus spongia ds. seit Cato, rom., ebenso -iola seit Colum.); arm. sung, sunk „Schwamm, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. fungus, p. 598]

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. fungus (scan p. 264; entry #658). Root candidates: *sphong-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. fungus (scan p. 286; entry #4468).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. fungus (scan pp. 598-599; entry #1188). Root candidates: *spongo-.

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