The corpus record — Latin

junceus

junceus · adj

Made of rushes, rush-

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

juncĕus — Lewis & Short

juncĕus, a, um, adj.id..

I Made of rushes, rush-: sporta, Col. 12, 6: vincula, Ov. F. 4, 870: cratis, Plin. 21, 14, 49, § 84.— Comically: nam mihi jam intus potione junceā onerabo gulam, with a rush-drink, i. e. with a rope of rushes, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 56.—

II Like a rush: herba caule junceo pedali, Plin. 25, 8, 47, § 85.—

B Transf., slim, slender: tam etsi bona'st natura, reddunt curatura junceam, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 25 (Fleck.): pectora, Prud. stef. 3, 132: proceritas columnarum, Cassiod. Var. 7, 15.

In the wild

iuncea Plautus, Stichus 4.2
iuncea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.14.p4
iunceo Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 3.2
iuncea Ovid, Fasti 4.870
iunceas Terence, Eunuchus 2.3
iuncea Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 3.132

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.