The corpus record — Latin

nurus

nurus · f

a daughter-in-law

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Where it lives

Hercules 4 · 5.26/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 5 · 4.44/10k
Epistulae 11 · 4.3/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nŭrus — Lewis & Short

nŭrus, ūs (nŭra, Rénier, Inscr. Afr. 1590), f.for snurus, kindr. with Sanscr. snusha and the Old Germ. snur, Schnur; Gr. nuo/s,

dat. nuru, Tac. A. 6, 29.— Form

I a daughter-in-law.

I Lit.: uno animo omnes socrus oderunt nurus, Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 4; Cic. Phil. 2, 24, 58; Verg. A. 2, 501: jam tua, Laomedon, oritur nurus, i. e. Aurora, the wife of Tithonus, a son of Laomedon, Ov. F. 6, 729: matrum nuruumque caterva, id. M. 12, 216; Gai. Inst. 2, 159; Juv. 14, 220.—

II Transf.

A A son's betrothed bride, Dig. 23, 2, 12.—

B The wife of a grandson or great-grandson, Dig. 23, 2, 14; ib. 2, 8, 2. —

C A young woman, married woman (poet.): inque nurus Parthas dedecus illud eat, Ov. A. A. 3, 248; id. M. 2, 366; id. H. 16, 184; Mart. 4, 75, 2: nurus Latinae, Ov. M. 2, 366; Luc. 1, 146.

In the wild

nurus Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.685
nurus Juvenal, Saturae 1.1.77
nurus Statius, Silvae 2.2.147
nurus Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.644
nurus Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.564
nurus Statius, Silvae 2.6.25

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. nurus (scan p. 476; entry #7705).

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