The corpus record — Latin

gemmosus

gemmosus · adj

richly set with jewels

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

gemmōsus — Lewis & Short

gemmōsus, a, um, adj.gemma, II.,

I richly set with jewels (post-class.): gemmosis monilibus onustas, App. M. 5, p. 162, 24.

In the wild

gemmosisque Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.8

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.