The corpus record — Latin

nebulo

nebulo · m

a paltry, worthiess fellow, an idle rascal, a sorry wretch

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Where it lives

Eunuchus 3 · 2.77/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Noctes Atticae 10 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 1 · 0.59/10k
Letters to Atticus 5 · 0.41/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k

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

What it meant

nĕbŭlo — Lewis & Short

nĕbŭlo, ōnis, m.nebula,

I a paltry, worthiess fellow, an idle rascal, a sorry wretch: nugator ac nebulo, Lucil. ap. Non. 19, 3; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 15: nos ab isto nebulone facetius eludimur, quam putamus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 44, 128: nebulones Alcinoique juventus, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 28: vappa ac nebulo, id. S. 1, 1, 104; cf. id. ib. 1, 2, 12: nebulo lucifugus (perh. on account of the etymology of the word), a scoundrel that shuns the light, Lucil. ap. Non. 19, 2.—In apposition with homo: vulgus nebulonum hominum, Gell. 1, 2, 7; 16, 6, 12.—

II Acc. to Acron ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 12, nebulo also signifies a man of low birth; on which account slaves were also called nebulones.

In the wild

nebulonis Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.82
nebulonis Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.3.7
nebulonem Cicero, Letters to Atticus 15.21.1
nebulo Terence, Eunuchus 4.7
nebulonem Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p41
nebulone Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 128

6 of 32 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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