The corpus record — Latin

mador

mador · m

moisture, wetness

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mădor — Lewis & Short

mădor, ōris, m.madeo,

I moisture, wetness (very rare; not in Cic. or Cæs.): ingens terror erat, ne ex latere nova munimenta madore infirmarentur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 138, 6 (Hist. 3, 26): terrae, Arn. 5, 185: quoad me urinae madore perluerent, App. M. 1, p. 108, 21: lapides madore infirmi, Amm. 20, 6; Mart. Cap. 1, § 82 al.

In the wild

madore Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.18
madore Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.1.10
madore Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.13
madore Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes praef.p9

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.