The corpus record — Latin

harenosus

harenosus · adj

full of sand

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Jugurtha 2 · 0.94/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Punica 6 · 0.79/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 23 · 0.58/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hărēnōsus — Lewis & Short

hărēnōsus (aren-), a, um, adj.harena,

I full of sand, sandy: Ladon, Ov. M. 1, 702: terra, id. ib. 14, 82; Plin. 17, 7, 4, § 44: litus Libyae, Verg. A. 4, 257: urina, Plin. 23, 3, 36, § 73: lapis harenosior, id. 33, 6, 33, § 101: quod sit harenosissimum subsidat, id. 27, 4, 5, § 20.—As subst.: hărē-nōsum, i, n., a sandy place: quae humi arido atque harenoso gignuntur, Sall. J. 48, 3.—Plur.: hărēnōsa, ōrum, opp. lutosa, Plin. 32, 6, 21, § 60.

In the wild

harenosae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.7.p2
harenosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.51.p1
harenoso Sallust, Jugurtha 48.p2
harenosa Silius Italicus, Punica 14.78
harenosos Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 1.337
harenoso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.16.p1

6 of 51 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.