The corpus record — Latin

germino

germino · v. n

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

Where it lives

Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Silvae 6 · 2.4/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 15 · 1.91/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

germĭno — Lewis & Short

germĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and

I a. [germen] (post-Aug.).

I Neutr., to sprout forth, put forth, bud, germinate: asparagus altissime germinat, Plin. 19, 8, 42, § 146; 13, 24, 46, § 129; 16, 25, 41, § 97 sqq. et saep. —

II Act., to put forth: pennas, Plin. 30, 11, 30, § 101: capillum, id. 7, 6, 5, § 42.—

2 to beget, produce, Vulg. Isa. 45, 8; 61, 11.

In the wild

germina Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.68
germinat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.7.p2
germina Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.885
germinaverint Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.5.13
germinet Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p14
germinet Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.11.4

6 of 101 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.