The corpus record — Latin

ornus

kind of ash-tree

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Where it lives

Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Argonautica 6 · 1.61/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ornus — de Vaan

ornus 'kind of ash-tree' [f. o] (Verg.+) -; Pit. *osVnor. , ' ? PIE *Hh3-o/es-. IE cognates: Olr. (h)uinnius 'ash' < *onnistu-y MW coll. onn, sing. ormeny OCo. onnen, Bret coll. onny ounn 'ash-tree' < *osna/-os; OPr. woasis (< *oy/-j), Lith. uosis [m.], Latv, uosis [m.], Ru. jasen', Cz.jasan, SCr. jasen 'ash-tree' < BS1. *o?s-en- (> Slav.), *o?s-i-o- (> Bait.) < PIE *Heh3-s-; Arm. hac'i 'ash-tree', Alb. ah Lbeech' … — [de Vaan, s.v. ornus, p. 449]

2. ornus — Lewis & Short

ornus, i, f.,

I the wild mountain-ash: steriles orni, Verg. G. 2, 111; Hor. C. 3, 27, 58; Plin. 16, 18, 30, § 73; Col. Arbor. 16; Juv. 1, 11.—

II Transf., a lance made of the wood of this tree: vibrabilis ornus Achilli, Aus. Ep. 24, 108.

3. ornus — Walde–Hofmann

ornus, -: f. „wilde Bergesche* (seit Verg. ram, [ö-): aus *ösen-os oder *ösin-os, zu russ, usw. jäsens „Esche“ (Bartholomae IF. 1, 304 A., Pedersen KZ. 38, 311), vgl. kymr. usw. onn-en f. „Esche“ Coma, Fick Ií* 51), weitergebildet air, uinnius ,Esche* (Bertoldi RC. 7, 193; vgl auch gall onno *flümen?, Thurneysen IF. 42, 146); lit. &osis, lett. ösis; apr. woasis „Esche* (*ösi-s; dazu illyr. [pannon.] VN. Osi, ON. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ornus, p. 1129]

In the wild

ornos Silius Italicus, Punica 3.639
orni Horace, Carmina 1.9
orni Statius, Achilleis 1.113
ornum Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.535
ornos Silius Italicus, Punica 3.470
ornos Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.406

6 of 43 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. ornus (scan p. 449; entry #1221). Root candidates: *osk-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ornus (scan p. 493; entry #7994).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ornus (scan pp. 1129-1130; entry #1906). Root candidates: *sKo-, *ogsu-.

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