The corpus record — Latin

pampinus

pampinus · m

a tendril

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Where it lives

Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 28 · 3.56/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pampĭnus — Lewis & Short

pampĭnus, i, m. and f. (in

I fem.: circumflua pampinus, Claud. III. Cons. Stil. 366: opaca, id. Epith. Pall. et Celer. 5; cf. Donat. p. 1747 P.; Serv. Verg. E. 7, 58, acc. to whom Varro often used the word as a fem.) [root pamp-, pap-, to swell, v. pōpulus; cf. papula, pustule], a tendril or young shoot of a vine (cf. palmes).

I Lit., Col. 4, 22, 4: ex gemmis pampini pullulant, id. 3, 18, 4: pampinos detergere, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 175: detrahere, id. 17, 22, 35, § 193.—

2 A vine-leaf, the foliage of a vine: involvulus, quae in pampini folio intorta implicat se, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 64: uva vestita pampinis, Cic. Sen. 15, 53: male defendet pampinus uvas, Verg. G. 1, 448: ornatus viridi tempora pampino Liber, Hor. C. 4, 8, 34: pampini densitas, Col. 3, 2, 11.—

II Transf., a clasper or tendril of any climbing plant, Plin. 16, 35, 63, § 153; 9, 51, 74, § 163.

2. pampinus — Walde–Hofmann

pampinus, 4 m. f. „Weinranke, Weinlaub; Ranke“ (seit Enn., rom.; vgl. pampineus „von Weinlaub" seit Verg., pampinäceus ds. seit Colum., pampinütws ds. seit Plin. nat, pampinärius „zur Ranke 16% 244 , panaca — pando. gehörig“ und pampinüsus „voll Weinlaub* seit Colum.; pampino, -jre ,ranke ab“ seit Cato [-Atiö seit Varro, -ätor Colum.): ^ wohl samit gr. üumekog f. , Weinstock" „kaum thrak. nach Boisacq 56, vgl. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. pampinus, p. 1149]

In the wild

pampini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.21.p1
pampini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.22.p7
pampinos Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.10.11
pampini Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.18.4
pampinus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.17.3
pampini Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.14.1

6 of 62 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. pampinus (scan p. 502; entry #8164).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. pampinus (scan pp. 1149-1151; entry #1943). Root candidates: *pempe-, *ampeno-, *com-.

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