The corpus record — Latin

juniperus

juniperus · f

the juniper-tree

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Naturalis Historia 26 · 0.66/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k

What it meant

jūnĭpĕrus — Lewis & Short

jūnĭpĕrus (also jūnĭpĭrus, in Plin. passim), i, f.,

I the juniper-tree, Plin. 8, 31, 51, § 99; 16, 18, 30, § 73; Verg. E. 7, 53; 10, 76.

In the wild

iuniperis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.24.p3
iuniperi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.40.p4
iunipiro Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.11.p1
iuniperus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.18.p1
iuniperus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.38.p2
iunipero Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.3.1

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. iüniperus (scan p. 763; entry #1447). Root candidates: *en-, *iin-, *dhro-.

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