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globus

round and compact mass

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Punica 27 · 3.54/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Res Gestae 39 · 3.06/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k

Densest 12 of 61 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. globus — de Vaan

globus "round and compact mass' [m. o] (PI.) Derivatives: globdsus 'round' (Pac.+). Probably a loanword, see s.v. gleba, BibL: WH I: 608, EM 277, IEW 359f., Schrijver 1991: 125. — gleba, glomus glomus, -eris 'ball-shaped mass' [n. r] (Varro+) Derivatives: glomerare *to form into a ball, collect' (Varro+), glomeramen 'aggregation' (Lucr.+); conglomerare 'to concentrate, heap up' (Enn.+). Pit *glemos, -es-. PIE … — [de Vaan, s.v. globus, p. 279]

2. glŏbus — Lewis & Short

glŏbus, i, m.kindr. with glomus,

I a round body, a ball, sphere, globe.

I Lit.

A In gen.: cum duae formae praestantes sint, ex solidis globus (sic enim sfai=ran interpretari placet), ex planis autem circulus aut orbis, qui ku/klos Graece dicitur, Cic. N. D. 2, 18, 47: ille globus, quae terra dicitur, id. Rep. 6, 15: terrae, id. Tusc. 1, 28, 68; cf. stellarum, id. Rep. 6, 16; 6, 17: solis et lunae, Lucr. 5, 472; cf. lunae, id. 5, 69: cum caelum discessisse visum est atque in eo animadversi globi, fire-balls, Cic. Div. 1, 43, 97: in fundas visci indebant grandiculos globos, Plaut. Poen. 2, 35: cordis, poet. for cor, Lucr. 4, 119: farinae, Varr. L. L. 5, § 107 Müll.; v. in the foll.—

B In partic.

1 A dumpling: a globo farinae dilatato item in oleo cocti dicti globi, Varr. L. L. 5, § 107 Müll.; Cato, R. R. 79.—

2 In milit. lang., a close order of battle, a knot, troop, band, company, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. serra, p. 344 b. Müll.: cum globo juvenum, Liv. 1, 6, 7; 1, 12, 9: emissi militum globi turbam disjecere, Tac. A. 14, 61; 4, 50; 12, 43; 15, 60; Sil. 7, 53.—

II Transf., a globular mass, a ball, globe of things collected together (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cicero nor Cæsar): flammarumque globos liquefactaque volvere saxa, globes or masses of flame, Verg. G. 1, 473: sanguinis, Ov. M. 12, 238: nubium, Luc. 4, 74; Tac. A. 2, 23: telorum, Val. Fl. 6, 381. —A throng, crowd, body, or mass of people: extrema contio et circa Fabium globus increpabant inclementem dictatorem, Liv. 8, 32, 13: circa eum aliquot hominum, ne forte violaretur, constitisset globus, id. 2, 29, 2: cum repelleretur adsertor virginis a globo mulierum, id. 3, 47, 8: aditum senatus globus togatorum obsederat, Tac. A. 16, 27: magno semper electorum juvenum globo circumdari, id. G. 13; and with a contemptuous secondary notion: si quem ex illo globo nobilitatis ad hoc negotium mittatis, from that noble clique, Sall. J. 85, 10 Kritz.: conjurationis, Vell. 2, 58, 2; cf. consensionis, Nep. Att. 8, 4: Jehu, Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, 17.

In the wild

globus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.9.1
globo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.70.p2
globo Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.5.7
globi Statius, Thebais 9.71
globos Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.10.15
globos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.13.p5

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Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. globus (scan p. 279; entry #701). Root candidates: *glem-, *gleb-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. globus (scan p. 301; entry #4721).

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