The corpus record — Latin

humo

humo · v. a

to cover with earth

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Ibis 4 · 10.18/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Georgicon 12 · 8.48/10k
Fasti 24 · 7.7/10k
Ex Ponto 14 · 6.75/10k
De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 3 · 5.44/10k
Tristia 11 · 4.83/10k
Ars Amatoria 6 · 4.03/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k

Densest 12 of 68 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hŭmo — Lewis & Short

hŭmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.humus,

I to cover with earth, to inter, bury.

I Lit. (rare but class.; cf.: sepelio, tumulo): in terram cadentibus corporibus iisque humo tectis, e quo dictum est humari, Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 36: cum ignotum quendam projectum mortuum vidisset eumque humavisset, id. Div. 1, 27, 56: corpora, id. Tusc. 1, 45, 108: caesorum reliquias uno tumulo humaturus, Suet. Calig. 3: humatus et conditus est, id. Vit. Hor.; Plin. 30, 7, 20, § 64; Prop. 3, 16 (4, 15), 29: sepulcrum ubi mortuus sepultus aut humatus sit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 278 Müll.: corpus humandum, Verg. A. 6, 161. —*

II Transf., in gen., like the Gr. qa/ptein, to pay the last dues to a body, to perform the funeral rites: militari honestoque funere humaverunt ossaque ejus in Cappadociam deportanda curarunt, Nep. Eum. 13 fin.

In the wild

6 of 306 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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