The corpus record — Latin

Juba2

Juba2 · f

the flowing hair on the neck of an animal, the mane

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Where it lives

De Bello Africo 28 · 21.53/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
In Rufinum 3 · 5.24/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 4 · 4.74/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Divus Julius 4 · 4.1/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 3 · 3.96/10k

Densest 12 of 67 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. jŭba — Lewis & Short

jŭba, ae, f.,

I the flowing hair on the neck of an animal, the mane.

I Lit.: equi, Cic. Div. 1, 33, 73: huic equus ille jubam quatiens, Cic. N. D. poet. 2, 43, 111: equorum jubae, Caes. B. G. 1, 48; Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 142: luduntque jubae per colla, per armos, Verg. A. 11, 497.—

B Transf., the hair of the head, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2; the hairy neck of dogs, Val. Fl. 6, 111; the crest of serpents, id. 8, 88; the crest of a helmet, Verg. A. 7, 785; the comb or tuft of feathers on the head of cocks and other birds, Col. 8, 2, 10; the tail of a comet, Plin. 2, 25, 22, § 89; the foliage of trees, id. 6, 22, 24, § 87: mullorum, the beards, Juv. 6, 40.— *

II Trop., of the historic style of writing: hanc (orationem) saepius ossa, musculi, nervi: illam (historiam) tori quidam, et quasi jubae decent, Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 10.

2. Jŭba — Lewis & Short

Jŭba, ae, m.,

I the name of two Numidian-kings.

I Juba I., king of Numidia and a part of Mauretania, who joined the party of Pompey, gained a victory over Cæsar's legate Curio, and put an end to his own life after the battle of Thapsus, Hor. C. 1, 22, 15; Caes. B. C. 2, 25; Suet. Caes. 66; Auct. B. Afr. 25 and 43.—

II Juba II., the son of the former, who, after his father's death, was brought by Cæsar to Rome, where he received a liberal education, and won himself great reputation by his historical works and works on the history of art. He married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra, and was afterwards reinstated in his paternal kingdom, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 16; 6, 27, 31, § 139; Tac. A. 4, 5; 23; Suet. Calig. 26.

In the wild

6 of 275 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. iuba (scan p. 326; entry #835). Root candidates: *jupa-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. iuba (scan p. 756; entry #1441).

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