The corpus record — Latin

nardus

nardus · f

nard

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

Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
De Medicina 29 · 2.83/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Naturalis Historia 44 · 1.11/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k

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

What it meant

nardus — Lewis & Short

nardus, i, f., and nardum, i, n., = na/rdos,

I nard, Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 42: nardus Gallicus, id. 12, 12, 26, § 46.—

II Transf., nard-balsam, nard-oil: Assyriāque nardo Potamus uncti, Hor. C. 2, 11, 16: Syrio madefactus tempora nardo, Tib. 3, 6, 63.

In the wild

nardi Celsus, De Medicina 6.7.p2
nardi Celsus, De Medicina 5.23.p4
nardum Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Hispaniensi 33
nardum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.20.p1
nardo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.12.p37
nardi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.2.p1

6 of 100 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. nardus (scan p. 453; entry #7277).

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