The corpus record — Latin

lanugo

lanugo · f

woolly substance, down

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Naturalis Historia 54 · 1.36/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lānūgo — Lewis & Short

lānūgo, ĭnis, f.cf. Gr. la/xnh, Lat. lāna,

I woolly substance, down, of plants, of the cheeks, etc. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: flaventem primā ianugine malas Dum sequeris Clytium, Verg. A. 10, 324; so, primaque par sacrae lanugo senectae, Juv. 13, 59; cf.: comae graciles et lanuginis instar, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 23: signarat dubia teneras lanugine malas, id. M. 13, 754: a prima lanugine, Suet. Oth. 12: herba cubile praebebat, multa et molli lanugine abundans, Lucr. 5, 817: folia araneosa lanugine obducta, Plin. 24, 12, 66, § 108: cana legam tenera lanugine mala, Verg. E. 2, 51.—

II Transf., sawdust, Col. 4, 29, 16.

In the wild

lanugo Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.643
lanuginis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.16.p2
lanugine Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.1.p5
lanuginem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.23
lanugine Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.2.p5
lanugine Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.12.p2

6 of 105 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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