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margo

margo · m

an edge, brink, border, margin

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Where it lives

Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 4 · 3.16/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Silvae 6 · 2.4/10k
Carmina 5 · 2.23/10k
Thebais 13 · 2.08/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Architectura 9 · 1.56/10k

Densest 12 of 39 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. margo — Lewis & Short

margo, ĭnis, m. and f. (cf.

Prisc. p. 684 P.),

I an edge, brink, border, margin (class., but not in Cic. or Cæs.): flumen marginibus lapideis, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 9: conchae, Plin. 9, 36, 61, § 130: ulceris, id. 30, 13, 39, § 113: calicis, id. 37, 2, 7, § 18: gemmae, id. 37, 8, 37, § 116: margine gramineo (sc. fontis), Ov. M. 3, 162: ripae, id. ib. 5, 598: agri, a boundary, Val. Max. 5, 6, 4: puppis, Sil. 3, 360: terrarum, shore, Ov. M. 1, 13: viridi si margine cluderet undas herba, Juv. 3, 14: capite super margine scuti posito, Liv. 44, 33.—In fem.: margo, quae sustinet arenam, Vitr. 5, 12; Aemil. Macer. and Rabir. ap. Charis. p. 49 P.: plena jam margine libri, Juv. 1, 5; cf. Quint. 1, 1, 27: margine in extremo littera rasa, Ov. Am. 1, 11, 22: comae, Stat. S. 2, 1, 44: oculorum, id. ib. 3, 2, 53: rostri, Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 37: templi, threshold, Stat. S. 4, 4, 54: imperii, boundary, Ov. Tr. 2, 199; cf.: extremo in margine imperii, qua Rhenus alluit, Plin. 12, 20, 43, § 98.—

II Transf. (poet.): partem modicae sumptam de margine cenae, i. e. the side-dishes, Juv. 4, 30.

2. margo — Walde–Hofmann

margo, -inis m. (seit Lex par. fac. Puteol) und f. (seit Macer, nach üra) „Rand“; jünger (seit Ov., Norden Alt-Germ. 16?) , Grenze" (rom., ebenso *margella (vgl. margarita]; davon margind, -äre „mit Rand versehen“ seit Liv. [£- Plin.): aus *mırd-on- (-en-; vgl. Hirt Abl. 127. Vok. 158, Walde Festschr. Streitberg 193f.) zu np. marz ,Landstrich, Mark"; got. marka f. „Mark, Grenze“, ahd. marc(h)a „Grenze, Grenzland*, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. margo, p. 945]

In the wild

margine Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 9.4.31
marginem Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.44.33.9
margine Ovid, Epistulae 5.27
margine Silius Italicus, Punica 14.376
margines Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.11.4
margine Silius Italicus, Punica 6.165

6 of 147 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. margo (scan pp. 945-946; entry #1697). Root candidates: *mrog-, *mroji-, *mreng-.

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