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Narbo

Narbo · m

a city in Gaul, from which

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

  • Ordo Urbium Nobilium 3 · 28.68/10k
  • Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
  • Pro Fonteio 2 · 4.41/10k
  • Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
  • Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
  • Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
  • Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
  • De bello Gallico 5 · 0.97/10k
  • De Bello Civili 2 · 0.62/10k
  • Philippicae 3 · 0.57/10k
  • Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
  • Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Narbo — Lewis & Short

Narbo, ōnis, m., and (late Lat.) Nar-bōna, ae, f., also with the appellation Marcius (after the consul Q. Marcius Rex, who led a colony thither A. U. C. 636),

I a city in Gaul, from which Gallia Narbonensis takes its name, the mod. Narbonne.—Form Narbo, Mela, 2, 5, 2; 6; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 32; Cic. Font. 1, 3; 16, 36; Vell. 1, 15, 5; 2, 8, 1.— Form Narbona, Capitol. Max. et Balb. 5, 8; Eutr. 4, 23; Inscr. Orell. 218.—Hence,
A Narbōnensis, e, adj., of or belonging to Narbo, Narbonian: colonia, Cic. Brut. 43, 160; id. Clu. 51, 140: coloni Narbonenses, Cic. Font. 2, 14: Gallia, the province of Gaul beyond the Alps, Mela, 2, 5, 1; Plin. 4, 17, 31, § 105.—
B Narbōnĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Narbo or to Narbonian Gaul, Narbonian: vitis, Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 43.

In the wild

6 of 31 attestations shown.

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.