The corpus record — Latin

nemorosus

nemorosus · adj

full of woods, woody

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Where it lives

Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Ars Amatoria 3 · 2.02/10k
Punica 7 · 0.92/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Pharsalia 3 · 0.59/10k
Res Gestae 7 · 0.55/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nĕmŏrōsus — Lewis & Short

nĕmŏrōsus, a, um, adj.nemus,

I full of woods, woody (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Zacynthos, Verg. A. 3, 270 (cf. u(lh/essa *za/kunqos, Hom. Il. 9, 24): canes nemorosis montibus errant, Ov. A. A. 3, 427; Plin. Ep. 8, 8, 2: juga, Juv. 3, 191: convallis, Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 30: hospitium, id. 35, 11, 38, § 121.—

II Transf., full of foliage, bushy, shady: cupressus nemorosā vertice, Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 9: silvae, Ov. M. 10, 687: nemorosi saxa Palati, id. F. 4, 815: bracchia, Sil. 13, 595: frondibus nemorosus, Vulg. Ezek. 31, 3.

In the wild

nemorosis Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 2.8.1
nemorosaque Silius Italicus, Punica 3.666
nemorosa Ausonius, Mosella pr.5
nemoroso Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.1.16
nemorosa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.1.p4
nemorosaque Silius Italicus, Punica 13.595

6 of 44 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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