The corpus record — Latin

imbrico

To cover with gutter-tiles

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

imbrĭco — Lewis & Short

imbrĭco, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a. imbrex.

I To cover with gutter-tiles (postclass.): tegulis interjacentibus imbricarentur, Sid. Ep. 2, 2.—

II To form like a gutter-tile: caementa inter se, Vitr. 2, 8.—In part. perf.: laurus folio per margines imbricato, Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 127: ungues simiae, id. 11, 45, 101, § 247: vertebrae, id. 11, 1, 1, § 1.

In the wild

imbricati Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.45.p1
imbricemque Martial, Epigrammata 2.37.2
imbrices Suetonius, Nero 20.3
imbricatae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p26
imbrices Cato, De agri cultura 21
imbricato Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.30.p1

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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