The corpus record — Latin

labrusca

absol

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 29 · 18.49/10k
Eclogues 4 · 8.81/10k
De agri cultura 12 · 7.67/10k
Remedia Amoris 4 · 7.63/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Naturalis Historia 199 · 5.02/10k
Georgicon 7 · 4.95/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Elegiae 6 · 4.86/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 32 · 4.07/10k
De Medicina 40 · 3.9/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lābrusca — Lewis & Short

lābrusca (ae) vītis or ūva; also

I absol.: lābrusca, ae, f., the wild vine, claret-vine: vitis labrusca, Linn.: uva labrusca, Col. 8, 5 fin.: vitis labrusca, Plin. 12, 13, 28, § 48.—Absol.: aspice ut antrum Sylvestris raris sparsit labrusca racemis, Verg. E. 5, 7 Serv. ad loc.; Plin. 23, 1, 14, § 19: omphacium ... fit e labrusca, hoc est vite sylvestri, quod vocatur oenanthinum, id. 14, 16, 18, § 98.

2. labrusca — Walde–Hofmann

labrusca (-A-?) 4va oder vitis (auch f. Subst.) „wilde Rebe“ (seit Verg., rom. [neben *lambrusca], -um n. „deren Frucht“ Culex): unerklärt, wohl Fremdwort (gall. nach Zwicker 38 f. und gleichen Stammes mit lab-urnum; zum Suff. s. unter asinusca). Weitere Anknüpfung unsicher. Nicht überzeugend Charpentier KZ. 40, 438 (aus *labrg-skà : ai. Hbuja „Schlinggewächs, Liane“, angebl. mittelind. aus */ibrja, dazu laburnum … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. labrusca, p. 772]

In the wild

uva Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.14.p1
uvae Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.77
uvae Celsus, De Medicina 6.14
uvae Celsus, De Medicina 5.21.p3
uvae Celsus, De Medicina 6.9
Uvas Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.21.4

6 of 442 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. labrusca (scan pp. 772-773; entry #1462). Root candidates: *labrg-, *iéb-.

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