The corpus record — Latin

juncus

juncus · m

a rush

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De Medicina 18 · 1.76/10k
Naturalis Historia 46 · 1.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9 · 1.14/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

juncus — Lewis & Short

juncus, i, m.,

I a rush.

I Lit.: murteta juncis circumvincire, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 27: palustres, Ov. M. 8, 336: acutā cuspide junci, id. ib. 4, 299.—

II A twig resembling a rush, Plin. 26, 8, 46, § 72.

In the wild

iunci Plautus, Rudens 3.4
iunco Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.23.p1
iunco Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.20.5
iuncus Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.4.2
iunci Celsus, De Medicina 5.24.p1
iunci Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.23.p1

6 of 99 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. iuncus (scan pp. 327-328; entry #841). Root candidates: *joiniko-, *jainia-, *ioini-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. iuncus (scan p. 352; entry #5530).

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