The corpus record — Latin

materio

to build of wood

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Where it lives

De Cultu Feminarum 3 · 5.86/10k
De agri cultura 8 · 5.11/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 3 · 4.96/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 20 · 2.54/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
De Pudicitia 3 · 2.23/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Rerum Natura 9 · 1.85/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Apologeticum 3 · 1.5/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 48 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mātĕrĭo — Lewis & Short

mātĕrĭo (no

I perf.), ātum, 1, v. a. id., to build of wood (rare but class.): eaque aedificia minime sunt materianda propter incendia, Vitr. 5, 12, 7: aedes male materiatae, of bad wood-work, Cic. Off. 3, 13, 54.

In the wild

materias Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.24.9
Materiaque Lucan, Pharsalia 10.503
materiem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.43.p3
materias Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.11.18
materiem Tacitus, Annales 6.p33
materianda Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.12.7.p1

6 of 149 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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