The corpus record — Latin

gramineus

gramineus · adj

of grass

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Aeneid 6 · 0.95/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

grāmĭnĕus — Lewis & Short

grāmĭnĕus, a, um, adj.gramen,

I of grass, covered with grass, grassy.

I In gen.: campus, Verg. A. 5, 287: palaestrae, id. ib. 6, 642: sedile, id. ib. 8, 176: arae, id. ib. 12, 119: corona obsidionalis, a grass crown presented by those who were delivered from a siege to their deliverer, among the Romans the highest mark of military honor, Liv. 7, 37, 2; cf. Plin. 22, 3, 4, § 6; Gell. 5, 6, 8; cf. Dict. of Antiq. p. 309.—

II In partic., of Indian reed, bamboo: hasta (Minervae), Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 56, § 125.

In the wild

Gramineis Lucan, Pharsalia 4.199
gramineae Statius, Thebais 9.492
gramineas Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.7.8
gramineis Vergil, Aeneid 6.642
gramineum Silius Italicus, Punica 6.217
gramineo Ovid, Amores 3.5.5

6 of 44 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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