The corpus record — Latin

gibbus

gibbus · adj

hunched

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
De Medicina 6 · 0.59/10k

What it meant

1. gibbus — Lewis & Short

gibbus, a, um, adj.cf. ku/ptw, kufo/s, bent, bowed, crooked; v. gibber,

I hunched, humped, gibbous.

I Adj.: calvaria ex interiore parte concava, extrinsecus gibba, Cels. 8, 1.—

II Subst.

A gibbus, i, m., a hunch, hump, Juv. 10, 294; 309; 6, 109.—

B gibba, ae, f., the same, Suet. Dom. 23. —

2 Transf., a hump-like swelling, protuberance, Amm. 23, 4.

2. gibbus — Lewis & Short

gibbus, i,

I v. the preced. art. II. A.

3. gibbus — Walde–Hofmann

gibbus (gibber usw.) aus *gibus mit affektischer Konsonantendehnung wie in lippus usw. (z. B. Sommer Hb.? 203). — Das vom Roman. z. T. vorausgesetzte *gubbus erklärt sich weder als o.-u. Entsprechung von gibbus (Parodi St. it. fil. cl. 1, 433°) noch durch Beziehung auf die Parallelwz. *geubh- in lett. gubt „sich bücken“ usw. (Walde LEW.* 340; vlm. *gheubh-, Walde-P. 1567), eher vl, durch Einmischung von gr. xüpög … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. gibbus, p. 629]

In the wild

gibba Celsus, De Medicina 8.10.p8
gibbos Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 11
gibbum Celsus, De Medicina 4.1.p5
gibbum Juvenal, Saturae 4.10.294
gibbus Celsus, De Medicina 8.1.p7
gibba Celsus, De Medicina 8.1.p11

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. gibbus (scan p. 629; entry #1230). Root candidates: *geubh-, *gheubh-.

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