The corpus record — Latin

glaucus

glaucus · m

a Greek proper name

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Where it lives

Mosella 4 · 12.3/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Georgicon 6 · 4.24/10k
Apotheosis 3 · 4.05/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Carmina 6 · 2.68/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Glaucus — Lewis & Short

Glaucus, i, m., = *glau=kos,

I a Greek proper name.

I A son of Sisyphus, devoured by his own horses, Verg. G. 3, 267.—

II The commander of the Lycians in the Trojan war, a friend of Diomede, Hor. S. 1, 7, 17.—

III A fisherman of Anthedon, in Eubœa, who was changed into a sea-god, Ov. M. 13, 906 sq.; 14, 9; 38; 68; 7, 233: Glauci chorus, the Nereids, Verg. A. 5, 823; Stat. Th. 7, 335.

2. glaucus — Walde–Hofmann

glaucus, -a, -um „bläulich, graulich, lichtgrau“ (seit Verg. (P. d'Hérouville Mus. Belge 33, 1929, 471L.), rom. nur *glaucellus „Schneeglóckchen* [vgl. gleueia *viola? Gl]; glawci-cománs Iuvenc., glaueividus Gl, s. Thes): aus gr. YAauxdg „bläulich“ (s. zur Etym. unter galbus) wie glaucöma, -atís n. und -ae f. (vulg. -üm-, Festschr. Streitberg 370) „Augenstar; blauer Dunst* aus gr. yAaóxwpa, — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. glaucus, p. 638]

In the wild

Glaucum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.1.p1
glauca Ausonius, Mosella pr.349
glaucus Ausonius, Mosella pr.189
glauca Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.12.1
glauco Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 395
Glauci Vergil, Aeneid 6.36

6 of 100 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. glaucus (scan p. 300; entry #4707).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. glaucus (scan p. 638; entry #1245).

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