The corpus record — Latin

hamatus

hamatus · adj

furnished with a hook

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 6 · 1.23/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

hāmātus — Lewis & Short

hāmātus, a, um, adj.hamus,

I furnished with a hook, hooked.

I Lit.: ungues, Ov. M. 12, 563: harundo, id. ib. 5, 384: sentes, id. ib. 2, 799.—

B Transf., shaped like a hook, hooked, crooked: hamatis uncinatisque corporibus concreta haec esse dicat, * Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 121: ensis, i. q. harpe, Ov. M. 5, 80 (cf.: ferrum curvo tenus abdidit hamo, id. ib. 4, 720).—

II Trop.: hos ego viscatis hamatisque muneribus non sua promere puto, sed aliena corripere, i. e. catching, alluring, Plin. Ep. 9, 30, 2 (cf. with hamus, id. Pan. 43 fin.; Mart. 6, 63, 5; v. hamus, I. B. 1. b.).

In the wild

hamatis Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.799
hamatis Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.445
hamatisque Pliny the Younger, Letters 9.30.2
hamatis Propertius, Elegiae 2.12.9
hamata Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.66
hamata Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.468

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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