The corpus record — Latin

guttur

guttur · n

the gullet

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Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Ibis 3 · 7.63/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
Saturae 3 · 6.63/10k
Psychomachia 3 · 5/10k
Carmina 10 · 4.46/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Metamorphoses 23 · 2.96/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Re Coquinaria 4 · 2.55/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 48 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

guttur — Lewis & Short

guttur, ŭris, n. (ante-class.; also m. in

I acc. sing. gutturem, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 22; id. Aul. 2, 4, 25; Nov. Com. Fragm. v. 118 Rib.), the gullet, throat (cf.: faux, gula, jugulum): da meo gutturi gaudium, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 10; 49: venter gutturque resident ferias, id. Capt. 3, 1, 8: guttur homini tantum et suibus intumescit, Plin. 11, 37, 68, § 179: quis tumidum guttur miratur in Alpibus? Juv. 13, 162: (tamquam si in Alpibus gutturosos homines admireris, ubi tales sunt plurimi scilicet: nam lata et inflata colla habent, Vet. Schol. ad h. 1.): haud modicos tremulo fundens e gutture cantus, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 8, 14: liquidum tenui gutture cantat avis. Ov. Am. 1, 13, 8: parentis olim si quis impia manu Senile guttur fregerit, Hor. Epod. 3, 1.—In plur.: fodere guttura cultro, Ov. M. 7, 314: laqueo ligare guttura, id. ib. 6, 135.—Hence,

II Transf., gluttony: memorabile magni Gutturis exemplum, Juv. 2, 114.—Comically: inferior, i. e. anus, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 25.

In the wild

guttur Ovid, Fasti 6.138
gutture Seneca, Medea 1
guttur Celsus, De Medicina 4.1.p2
guttura Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.458
guttur Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.6.22
Gutturaque Ovid, Ibis 229

6 of 139 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. guttur (scan p. 310; entry #4874).

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