The corpus record — Latin

lacertosus

lacertosus · adj

muscular, brawny, powerful

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

lăcertōsus — Lewis & Short

lăcertōsus, a, um, adj.1. lacertus,

I muscular, brawny, powerful (cf. nervosus): equus, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 13: centuriones, * Cic. Phil. 8, 9, 26: viri, Col. 1, 9, 4: colonus, Ov. M. 11, 33.

In the wild

lacertosaeque Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.2.10
lacertosis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.37.6
lacertosum Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 7.66.24
lacertosi Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.33
lacertosum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.9.6
lacertosos Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.9.4

6 of 8 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.