The corpus record — Latin

limosus

limosus · adj

full of mud

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7 · 0.89/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Jugurtha 1 · 0.47/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

līmōsus — Lewis & Short

līmōsus, a, um, adj.2. limus,

I full of mud or slime, slimy, miry, muddy: quae (aqua) flumine Nilo fertur, adeo est limosa atque turbida, etc., Hirt. B. Alex. 5: limosoque palus obducit pascua junco, i. e. growing in muddy places, Verg. E. 1, 49; cf. radix, Plin. 27, 1, 17, § 34: lacus, Verg. A. 2, 135: ripae, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 1: harena, id. Tr. 4, 1, 7.—Plur. absol.: līmōsa, ōrum, n., muddy or miry places, Plin. 9, 42, 66, § 142.

Where it came from

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