1. ostrĕum — Lewis & Short
ostrĕum, i, n., v. ostrea.
The corpus record — Latin
ostreum
ostreum · n
v. ostrea
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
- De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
- Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
- Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
- Epigrammata 7 · 1.24/10k
- Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
- Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
- Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
- Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5 · 0.42/10k
- Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
- De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k
- Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k
Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ostreum — Walde–Hofmann
ostreum, -i n.. (ostrea, -ae f.) ,Auster* (seit Enn. rom. [-a £.]; ostreürius seit Plin. nat., ostredtus Plaut, ostreösus Priap,, ostridgó ,Püanzenname" GL, ostrifer seit Verg., ostricolor Sidon.; ostrinus seit Varro u. Prop. (-inus Turpil.] aus ócrpéivoc, osfrum n. , Purpur* seit Verg. (Rückbldg. aus osteinus [Leumann Gnomon 13,30]: aus gr. öotpeov (-ewvv) de. (8. unter os). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ostreum, p. 1134]
In the wild
- ostrea Martial, Epigrammata 7.78.3
- ostrea Petronius, Satyricon 70
- ostrea Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.95.25
- ostrea Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.302
- ostrea Juvenal, Saturae 1.4.142
- ostrea Apuleius, Apologia 39
6 of 38 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ostreum (scan p. 495; entry #8036).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ostreum (scan p. 1134; entry #1919).
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