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The corpus record — Latin

garus

garus · m

a fish

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

  • Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
  • Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
  • Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
  • Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
  • Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

gărus — Lewis & Short

gărus (găros), i, m., = ga/ros,

I a fish, otherwise unknown, from which the sauce called garum was prepared, Plin. 31, 7, 43, § 93; 32, 11, 53, § 149.

In the wild

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.