The corpus record — Latin

herba

small plant, weed

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 38.76/10k
Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 37.52/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Eclogues 13 · 28.65/10k
Georgicon 33 · 23.32/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 5 · 19.14/10k
Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Epodon 4 · 13.31/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 2 · 11.75/10k
De agri cultura 18 · 11.51/10k
Remedia Amoris 6 · 11.44/10k
Elegiae 14 · 11.33/10k

Densest 12 of 110 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. herba — de Vaan

small plant, weed

2. herba — Lewis & Short

springing vegetation

3. herba — Walde–Hofmann

ae f

Attestations

herbae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.4.6
herbas Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.6.14
herbasque Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.7.4
herbae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.15.8
herba Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.38
herbas Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.7.7

6 of 1,079 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan pp. 296-297; entry #754 Review: Under source audit
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Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 315; entry #4965 Review: Under source audit
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan pp. 671-674; entry #1308 Review: Under source audit
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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.