The corpus record — Latin

glaber

glaber · adj

without hair

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Where it lives

De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. glăber — Lewis & Short

glăber, bra, brum, adj.root glaf-, gla/fw, to hollow out, glafuro/s; cf. scalpo,

I without hair, smooth, bald: oves glabrae quam haec est manus, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 140: si quem glabrum facere velis, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 26: oves ventre glabro, id. ib. 2, 2, 6: colla boum, Col. 6, 14, 7: crure glaber, Mart. 12, 38, 4: glaber erat tamquam rien, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. rienes, p. 276 and 277 Müll.: hordeum, Turran. ap. Plin. 18, 7, 15, § 75: tapete, Turp. ap. Non. 542, 18.—Comp.: tu istum gallum glabriorem reddes mihi, quam volsus ludiu'st, Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 6: maritus cucurbitā glabrior, App. M. 5, p. 163,—

II Transf., as subst.: glăber, bri, m., a young (beardless) slave, favorite slave of the Romans, Cat. 61, 142; Phaedr. 4, 5, 22; Sen. Ep. 47; id. Brev. Vit. 12; Inscr. Orell. 694; 2911.

2. glaber — Walde–Hofmann

glaber (vulg. -rus 3. Jh-), -a, -um „glatt, unbehaart, kahl“ (seit Plaut., rom. vereinzelt, ebenso -äre „glatt machen, entliaaren* Colum. [de- seit Paul. dig., vgl. denado]|; vgl. noch glabréscó Colum. [nach calvéscó), glabräria Mart., glabellus seit Apul., glabritäs Arnob., glabriö "facie& discerptor’ Gl. (vgl. Cop Glabrió]): aus *ghladh-ros, *ghlodh-ros (zum Lautl. s. Walde IF. 19, 103, Persson Beitr. 295, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. glaber, p. 635]

In the wild

glaber Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.47.7
glabris Catullus, Carmina long_poems.61
glabri Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.39.p3
glabros Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 4.5.22
glabrum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.9.2
glaber Martial, Epigrammata 12.38.4

6 of 10 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. glaber (scan p. 299; entry #4693).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. glaber (scan pp. 635-636; entry #1239). Root candidates: *glada-, *ghladho-, *ghladhu-.

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