The corpus record — Latin

nebulosus

nebulosus · adj

full of mist

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nĕbŭlōsus — Lewis & Short

nĕbŭlōsus, a, um, adj.nebula,

I full of mist or vapor, misty, foggy, cloudy, dark.

I Lit.: ager si nebulosus est, Cato, R. R. 6: nebulosum et caliginosum caelum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 60: nebulosus et roscidus aër, Plin. 21, 7, 18, § 36: exhalatio, id. 31, 3, 27, § 44: dies nebulosi nubilive, Cels. 2, 1.—

B Esp. of a fine texture, cloud-like, = nefe/lai, nebulosa retia, Aus. Ep. 3, 5.—*

II Trop., dark, difficult to understand: nomen, Gell. 20, 3, 3.

In the wild

nebulosae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.1.7
nebulosi Silius Italicus, Punica 4.227
nebulosam Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.1.6
nebulosi Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.952
nebuloso Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.6.10
nebulosum Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.38.3.15

6 of 42 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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