gĕnesta — Lewis & Short
gĕnesta or gĕnista, ae, f.,
I the broomplant, broom, Verg. G. 2, 12; 434; Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 15; 24, 9, 40, § 65 al.
The corpus record — Latin
genesta
genesta · f
the broomplant
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
- Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
- Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- genestae Vergil, Georgicon 2.12
- genista Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.24.p41
- genistae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.26.p5
- genistaeque Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.pr.27
- genista Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.14.p3
- genestae Vergil, Georgicon 2.434
6 of 17 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.