The corpus record — Latin

operimentum

covering, cover

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Where it lives

De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Res Gestae 6 · 0.47/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

1. operimentum — de Vaan

operimentum "covering, cover' (Cato+); copenre/cooperire 'to cover completely' (PL+), adaperlre 'to open wide, uncover' (Varro+). Pit *op-wer-i(e)~ 'to cover up'. PIE *h2uer-i(e)- [pr.] 'to cover'. IE cognates: see s.v. aperio. Bibl.: WH II: 211, EM 38, IEW 1160-1162, Sihler 1995: 503, Meiser 1998: 116, 195, LIV *Huer-, —► aperire, ob \ — [de Vaan, s.v. operimentum, p. 443]

2. ŏpĕrīmentum — Lewis & Short

ŏpĕrīmentum (sync. opermentum;

I al. oprimentum, Prud. Psych. 461), i, n. id., a covering, cover, lid (class.): quibus operibantur operimenta et pallia opercula dixerunt, Varr. L. L. 5, § 167 Müll.: operimenta decem, Cato, R. R. 10: equis paria operimenta erant, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 11, 770: nuces gemino protectae operimento, Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 86: fulmen, quo dolia exhauriuntur intactis operimen tis, the lids, id. 2, 51, 52, § 137: oculorum, id. 8, 42, 64, § 156: testei, id. 11, 37, 55, § 153; a coverlet, covering for a bed: lectuli, Vulg. Deut. 27, 20: de cubili, id. Prov. 22, 27: redditur terrae corpus et ita locatum ac situm quasi operimento matris obducitur, * Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 56.—Trop.: operimenta animae, Ambros. Noë et Arca, 29, § 112.

In the wild

operimentis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.8.8
operimenta Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p15
operimento Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.22
operimentis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.11.10
operimentisque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.39.p1
operimentum Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.11.8

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. operimentum (scan p. 443; entry #1205).

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