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hortus

garden

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 38.76/10k
Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 6 · 10.36/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Galba 2 · 7.25/10k
Eclogues 3 · 6.61/10k
Pro M. Caelio 5 · 5.9/10k
Severus 2 · 4.75/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Saturae 10 · 4.02/10k

Densest 12 of 95 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. hortus — de Vaan

hortus 'garden' [m. o] (Lex XII+; in OLat. probably also 'villa', Pliny) Pit. *xorto-. It. cognates; O. hurz [nom.sg.]> hurtui [dat.sg.], hurtum [acc.sg.], hurtin [loc.sg. + -en] 'enclosure', PIE *gh(o)r-to- and *ghor-dho- 'enclosure'. IE cognates: Olr. gort 'field, standing crop', MW garth 'pen, fold', Gr. χόρτος 'enclosed place, feeding place'; maybe Go. — [de Vaan, s.v. hortus, p. 304]

2. hortus — Lewis & Short

hortus, i, m.cf.: heres, co-hors; xo/rtos, an enclosure for plants; hence,

I a garden, a pleasure - garden, fruit - garden, kitchen - garden, vineyard (syn.: pomarium, viretum, viridarium).

I Lit.: sed is clam patrem etiam hac nocte illa per hortum transiit ad nos, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 37: abii ad hortum nostrum, id. Most. 5, 1, 4; Col. 10, 11, 3; Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 50; Cic. de Sen. 16, 56; id. Off. 3, 14, 58; id. Phil. 2, 6, 15; Lact. 2, 7; 7, 25; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 15 et saep.: horti Epicuri, in which Epicurus taught, Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3; id. N. D. 1, 33, 93; id. Att. 12, 23, 2; cf. Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 51: magni Senecae praedivitis horti, Juv. 10, 16: Horti Caesaris, Agrippinae, Domitiae, etc., at Rome (Trans-Tiberim); cf. Becker's Antiq. I. p. 657 sq.: Horti Maecenatis, on the Esquiline hill, ib. p. 540 sq.—

II Transf.

A For villa, a country-seat: in XII. tabulis legum nostrarum nusquam nominatur villa, semper in significatione ea hortus, in horti vero heredium, Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 50.—

B For holera, garden-stuff, vegetables, greens, Cato, R. R. 8, 2; Hor. S. 2, 4, 16.—

C Like the Gr. kh=pos, i. q. pudendum muliebre, Poët. ap. Anth. Lat. I. p. 686 Burm.; also the posteriors of a boy, Auct. Priap. 5.

3. hortus — Walde–Hofmann

hortus (ortus Varro hss. infolge falscher Ableitung von orior), -i m. „Garten als eingezäunter Ort“: s. unter cohors $. 242 nebst Ableitungen (dazu Demin. hortulus seit Plaut., davon hortulö „Gärtner“ Sidon. [vgl hortiliö “horti eustös’ Cl), hortulänus seit Apul., hortu&lis “wnnalog’ [nach üswülis?| Ps. Apul. herb.; aber die EN. Hortensius Hortälus [Ernout-Meillet 440] bleiben fern, s. Schulze EN. 176£). ldg. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. hortus, p. 692]

In the wild

hortos Suetonius, Nero 47.1
hortis Tacitus, Historiae 1.50
hortos Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.31.2
hortis Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.2.3
hortos Martial, Epigrammata 12.31.9
hortos Cicero, Philippicae 3.30

6 of 338 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. hortus (scan p. 304; entry #778). Root candidates: *xorto-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. hortus (scan p. 324; entry #5120).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. hortus (scan p. 692; entry #1339). Root candidates: *gorto-, *gardija-.

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