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pratum

meadow

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Where it lives

De Herediolo 2 · 89.69/10k
Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 37.52/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Mosella 3 · 9.23/10k
De agri cultura 11 · 7.03/10k
Eclogues 3 · 6.61/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Georgicon 7 · 4.95/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k

Densest 12 of 71 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pratum — de Vaan

pratum 'meadow' [η. ο] (Ρ1.+) Pit. *prato-. PIE *prh3-to- 'allotted'? WH and IEW connect Olr. raith, rath 'earthen wall' < *(p)rat-y but this is semantically uncompelling. Steinbauer 1989: 252, note 14, has suggested PIE *prh3-to- "what has been allotted', which is more attractive from the semantic side (cf. the etymology of Eng. meadow). BibL: WH II: 358, EM 533, IEW 843f, Schrijver 1991: 182, LIV *perh3- (?). -> … — [de Vaan, s.v. pratum, p. 501]

2. prātum — Lewis & Short

prātum, i, n. (collat. form prātus, m., Gromat. Vet. p. 322, 5) [root prat-; Sanscr. prath, to spread out; cf. Gr. platu/s, pla/tanos],

I a meadow (class.).

I Lit.: pratum irriguum, aut siccum, Cato, R. R. 8, 1: stercorare, id. ib. 8, 50: irrigua facere, id. ib. 8, 9; Varr. R. R. 2 prooem.: pratorum viriditas, Cic. Sen. 16, 57: irrigare, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2: cratire, secare, caedere, sicilire, Plin. 18, 28, 67, § 258; 18, 3, 4, § 20: cultus prati, Col. 2, 17, 1: siccaneum, aut riguum, id. 2, 17, 3; Inscr. Grut. 204.—

II Transf.

A Meadow-grass (poet.): condita prata in patinis proferre, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 22; Ov. A. A. 1, 299.—

B A broad field, plain; poet., of the sea: rostro Neptunia prata secare, Cic. Arat. 129.

In the wild

prata Prudentius, Cathemerina 5.121
pratum Cato, De agri cultura 8
prata Seneca, Phaedra 1
pratum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.16.4
pratis Vergil, Georgicon 2.384
prata Propertius, Elegiae 3.15.45

6 of 198 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. pratum (scan p. 501; entry #1386). Root candidates: *prato-, *perh3-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pratum (scan p. 557; entry #9134).

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