The corpus record — Latin

impervius

impervius · adj

that cannot be passed through

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

impervĭus — Lewis & Short

impervĭus (inp-), a, um, adj.2. inpervius,

I that cannot be passed through, impassable, impervious (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: inaccessus, invius): amnis, Ov. M. 9, 106: iter, Quint. 12, 11, 11; cf. itinera (with interrupta), Tac. A. 3, 31: tellus, inaccessible, Val. Fl. 2, 643.— Transf.: lapis ignibus, Tac. A. 15, 43.

In the wild

inpervius Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.106
impervia Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 25.62
impervia Claudian, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.53
impervius Tacitus, Annales 15.p44
impervia Tacitus, Annales 3.p31
impervia Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.711

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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