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immundus

unclean, squalid

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Where it lives

Ad Uxorem 4 · 9.63/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 4 · 7.81/10k
De Pudicitia 10 · 7.44/10k
De idolatria 5 · 7.25/10k
De Spectaculis 4 · 6.29/10k
De Corona 3 · 6.17/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
Ars Amatoria 5 · 3.36/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Elegiae 7 · 2.77/10k

Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. immundus — de Vaan

immundus 'unclean, squalid' (PL+)> immunditia 'dirtiness' (PL+), permundus 'very clean' (Varro). Pit. *mudno-l PIE *mud-no- 'happy'? IE cognates: Skt. τηύώ [f.] 'joy, delight', moda- [m.] 'joy, delight', modate 'to be happy', Lith. mudriis, Latv. mudrs 'cheerful'? Could be derived from the PIE root *meud- 'to rejoice', although the semantics are not compelling. BibL: WH II: 126fi, EM 420, IEW 741-743. murmur mundus … — [de Vaan, s.v. immundus, p. 408]

2. immundus — Lewis & Short

immundus (inm-), a, um, adj.inmundus,

I unclean, impure, dirty, filthy, foul (syn.: spurcus, obscenus, impurus).

I Lit. (class.): humus erat immunda, lutulenta vino, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 66: homo, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 24; id. Cist. 1, 1, 115; Lucr. 4, 1160; Hor. S. 1, 6, 124: canis, id. Ep. 1, 2, 26: Harpyiae contactu immundo omnia foedant, Verg. A. 3, 228: sues, id. G. 1, 400: popinae, Hor. S. 2, 4, 62: ager, run wild, overgrown, Pall. 2, 10: pauperies domūs, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 199.—Absol.: im-mundae, ārum, f., unclean women, Cic. Att. 9, 10, 2.—Comp.: superne deciduo immundiore lapsu aliquo polluta, Plin. 14, 19, 23, § 119: nilo mundius hoc, niloque immundior ille, Cat. 97, 3; Sen. Q. N. 9, 4, 2.—Sup.: liquet illos immundissimos fuisse, Sen. Ep. 86, 11; Plin. Ep. 10, 98, 1.—*

II Trop.: aut immunda crepent ignominiosaque dicta, Hor. A. P. 247.—Adv.: immundē, impurely, uncleanly: foedare templa, Jul. Obseq. Prod. 115.

In the wild

immundis Tertullian, De idolatria 1
immundo Tertullian, De Anima 57
inmunda Tertullian, Apologeticum 7.5
immunda Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.24
Immundus Tertullian, De Baptismo 5
immundus Horace, Epistulae 1.2.26

6 of 124 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. immundus (scan pp. 408-409; entry #1106). Root candidates: *meud-, *moini-.

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