The corpus record — Latin

marmoro

marmoro · v. a

to overlay

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Epigrammata 6 · 1.07/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

marmŏro — Lewis & Short

marmŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id.,

I to overlay or incrust with marble (post-Aug.; most freq. in part. perf.): palatio exornato hoc genere marmorandi, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25: porticus marmorata, Petr. 77, 4: ingenti plaga marmorata dorso, i. e. paved with stones, Stat. S. 4, 3, 96.—

II To make a kind of plaster out of marble (ante-class., and only in part. perf.): tectorium marmoratum, Varr. R. R. 1, 57, 1.—Hence, mar-mŏrātum, i, n., a covering for walls or floors made of pounded marble and lime, Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 3; 3, 7, 3; Plin. 36, 23, 55, § 176.

In the wild

marmora Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.11.30
marmora Ausonius, Mosella pr.363
marmora Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.404
marmora Statius, Silvae 4.6.26
marmora Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.314
marmora Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.36.p11

6 of 54 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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