The corpus record — Latin

glarea

glarea · f

gravel

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Where it lives

Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 1 · 1.32/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8 · 1.02/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

glārĕa — Lewis & Short

glārĕa, ae, f.,

I gravel (cf. arena, sabulum, suburra, rudus): eo loco pulvis, non glarea injecta est, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 2, § 4; Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 2: vias glareà substruendas locaverunt, Liv. 41, 27, 5; Col. 4, 22, 8; Tib. 1, 7, 59; Verg. G. 2, 212; Vitr. 2, 4, 2; Vulg. Job, 30, 6.

In the wild

glarea Ausonius, Mosella pr.67
glaream Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.11.7
glarea Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.8.6
glarea Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.9.9
glarea Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.22.8
glarea Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.2.10

6 of 25 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. glarea (scan p. 300; entry #4704).

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