The corpus record — Latin

onager

onager · m

a wild ass

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ŏnăger — Lewis & Short

ŏnăger and ŏnā^grus, i, m., = o)/nagros,

I a wild ass, Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 3; cf. Col. 6, 37, 3; Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 174: timidi, Verg. G. 3, 409: pulcher, Mart. 13, 100, 1; Vulg. Psa. 103, 11; id. Osee, 8, 9.—

II Transf., a military engine for discharging large stones, Veg. Mil. 4, 22; Amm. 23, 4, 4.

In the wild

onager Martial, Epigrammata 13.100.1
onagro Ausonius, Epistularum 30.35
onagro Petronius, Satyricon 38
onagro Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.28.p32
onager Celsus, De Medicina 2.18.p2
onager Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.37.4

6 of 11 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. onager (scan p. 486; entry #7857).

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