The corpus record — Latin

herbosus

herbosus · adj

Full of grass

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Where it lives

Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

herbōsus — Lewis & Short

herbōsus, a, um, adj.id..

I Full of grass or herbs, grassy: campus, Hor. C. 3, 18, 9: Palatia, Tib. 2, 5, 25: Apidanus, Prop. 1, 3, 6: flumen, Verg. G. 2, 199: pascua, Ov. M. 2, 689: moretum, id. F. 4, 367: herbosissima stramenta, Cato, R. R. 54, 2.—

II Grass-colored, grass - green (post-class.): marmor, Sid. Carm. 5, 38: calcei smaragdineae fluctu viriditatis, Mart. Cap. 1, § 66.

In the wild

herbosumque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.19.p1
herbosas Ausonius, Mosella pr.85
herboso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.4.p4
herboso Horace, Carmina 3.18
herbosaque Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.689
herboso Propertius, Elegiae 1.3.6

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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