The corpus record — Latin

garum

garum · n

a rich sauce

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

gărum — Lewis & Short

gărum or găron, i, n., = ga/ron,

I a rich sauce, fish-sauce, garum, made of small fish, esp. the scomber, of which the Romans were exceedingly fond, Plin. 31, 7, 43, § 93 sq.; Hor. S. 2, 8, 46; Mart. 13, 102; 7, 27, 8; Sen. Ep. 95 med.

In the wild

garum Martial, Epigrammata 7.94.2
garum Martial, Epigrammata 13.102.2
garum Martial, Epigrammata 13.82.2
garum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.8.p2
garum Celsus, De Medicina 2.21
garum Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 5.255

6 of 11 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. garum (scan pp. 291-292; entry #4560).

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