The corpus record — Latin

grando

grando · f

hail

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Punica 11 · 1.44/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

grando — Lewis & Short

grando, ĭnis, f. (

I masc., Varr. ap. Non. 208, 11) [Sanscr. hrād-uni, storm; Gr. xa/laza for xalad-ia], hail, a hail-storm.

I Lit., Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 58; id. Merc. 5, 2, 19; Cic. N. D. 3, 35, 86; Liv. 28, 37, 7; Verg. G. 1, 449; Hor. C. 1, 2, 2; 3, 1, 29 et saep.: nimbus cum saxea grandine subito est exortus ingens, hailstones, Auct. B. Afr. 47, 1.—In plur.: terrere animos, nimbis, nivibus, grandinibus, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14: grandines ruunt, Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103.—

B Transf., poet., a shower, i. e. a great quantity, a multitude: et densa resonant saxorum grandine turres, Sil. 2, 38: aspera saxorum, id. 9, 578.—*

II Trop., of copious speech: qui grandines Ulixei (superat), Aus. Ep. 16, 13.

In the wild

grandine Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.543
grandines Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.47.p3
grandine Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 47
grandinem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.35.p2
grandinis Ausonius, Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 7.8
grandinis Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.20.10.6

6 of 132 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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