The corpus record — Latin

germen

germen · n

a sprig

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 4 · 5.43/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Apotheosis 3 · 4.05/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 2 · 3.59/10k
Contra Symmachum 3 · 2.5/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

germen — Lewis & Short

germen, ĭnis, n.Sanscr. root grabh-, grah-, to conceive; garbh-as, child; whence, bre/fos (for gre/fos), germanus, perh. gremium,

I a sprig, offshoot, sprout, bud (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: huc aliena ex arbore germen Includunt, Verg. G. 2, 76: serotino germine malus, tardissimo suber, Plin. 16, 25, 41, § 98; Vulg. Deut. 11, 17 et saep.—In plur.: inque novos soles audent se germina tuto Credere, Verg. G. 2, 332; Plin. 18, 10, 21, § 94: auctumni maturet germina Virgo, fruits, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 465: impleratque uterum generoso germine, fœtus, embryo, Ov. M. 9, 280; so, celsa Tonantis, i. e. daughter, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 76: servile, Just. 18, 3 fin.; and of puppies, whelps, Nemes. Cyneg. 155.—

B Transf.: cara maris, i. e. precious stones, Claud. Ep. ad Ser. 14: frontis, i. e. a horn, id. Rapt. Pros. 1, 129.—

II Trop., a germ: rabies unde illaec germina surgunt, Lucr. 4, 1083: germen ab aethere trahere, origin, Prud. Cath. 10, 32: germine nobilis Eulalia, id. stef. 3, 1.

In the wild

germinum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.24.p5
germine Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.29.p3
germen Vergil, Georgicon 2.76
germen Statius, Thebais 2.280
germine Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.29.1
germinis Tertullian, De Virginibus Velandis 1

6 of 59 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. germen (scan p. 297; entry #4652).

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