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glomus

glomus · n

a ball

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Where it lives

Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. glŏmus — Lewis & Short

glŏmus (glōm-, ĕris, n.for glob-mus, kindr. with globus,

Lucr. 1, 360; v. Lachm.),

I a ball or clue of yarn, thread, etc. (very rare).

I In gen.: lanae, Lucr. 1, 360 (v. Lachm. ad h. l.); Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 14: lini, Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 91: staminis albi, Scrib. Comp. 142.—

II In partic.: glomus in sacris crustulum cymbi figura ex oleo coctum appellatur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 98 Müll. (in Cato and Varro globus).

2. glomus — Walde–Hofmann

glomus (-ó- Lucr. künstlich, Wackernagel Festschr. Kretschmer 296), -eris n. „Kloß (als Speise); Knáuel* (seit Varro, rom. [neben *glemus, s. u,, ebenso gloméro, -äre „zu einem Knäuel zusammenrollen, ballen“ seit Varro [con- seit Pacuv.) *glomulus, *glomellus. *glomiscellum [vgl. glomusculum Gl.) „kleiner Knäuel*; vgl. noch glomerämen dicht. seit Lucr., glomeratim seit Aetna, glomerösus seit Colum.): mit sog. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. glomus, p. 641]

In the wild

glomere Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.360
glomere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.13.p3
glomus Horace, Epistulae 1.13.14

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. glomus (scan p. 301; entry #4728).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. glomus (scan p. 641; entry #1249). Root candidates: *gel-, *glembh-, *glebh-.

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