The corpus record — Latin

gibber1

gibber1 · adj

crook-backed

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Where it lives

Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. gibber — Lewis & Short

gibber, ĕra, ĕrum, adj.like gibbus; kindr. to Sanscr. kubya, hunch-backed; Gr. kufo/s, ku/ptw,

I crook-backed, hunch-backed, hump-backed.

I Lit.: (boves) ne gibberi, sed spina leviter remissa, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 7: gallinae, id. ib. 3, 9, 18; cf.: genus gallinarum, Plin. 10, 26, 38, § 74: Clesippus fullo, gibber praeterea et alio foedus aspectu, id. 34, 3, 6; cf. Suet. Galb. 3: tuber, Maecen. poët. ap. Sen. Ep. 101, 11.—*

II Transf., protuberant: gibberum pro exstanti et eminenti, Varr. ap. Non. 452, 5: cum capite gibbero, id. ib. 6, 24.

2. gibber — Lewis & Short

gibber, ĕris, m.1. gibber,

I a hunch or hump on the back (post-Aug.), Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 179: quod erat aucto gibbere, App. Flor. p. 350; cf. also 1. gibbus, II.

In the wild

gibberum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.26
gibbere Apuleius, Florida 14
gibberum Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 17_18.101.11
gibber Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.45.p1
gibber Suetonius, Galba 3.3
gibber Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.3.p1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. gibber (scan p. 298; entry #4675).

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.