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pubes2

pubes2 · adj

that is grown up

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Genethliacon ad Ausonium Nepotem 2 · 116.96/10k
Cupido cruciatur 2 · 27.14/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Parentalia 3 · 11.54/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 3 · 11.42/10k
Mosella 3 · 9.23/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Punica 63 · 8.26/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k

Densest 12 of 84 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pūbes — Lewis & Short

pūbes and pūber (cf. pūbis, ĕris, Caes. ib.), ĕris, adj.root pu-, to beget; in Sanscr. putras, son; pumans, man; cf.: puer, pūpa, putus, etc.,

Prisc. p. 707 P.; also

I that is grown up, of ripe age, adult, pubescent.

I Lit. (class.): pubes et puber qui generare potest: is incipit esse a quattuordecim annis: femina a duodecim viri potens, sive patiens, ut quidam putant, Fest. p. 250 Müll.; Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 224: filii, Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129: priusquam pubes esset, Nep. Dion, 4, 4: ad puberem aetatem, Liv. 1, 3.—

B Subst.: pūbĕres, um, m., grown-up persons, adults, men (cf.: adulescens, ephebus): omnes puberes armati convenire consuerunt, Caes. B. G. 5, 56; id. B. C. 2, 13; 3, 9; Sall. J. 26, 3; 54, 6; Tac. A. 13, 39.—Sing. collect.: omnem Italiae pubem commiserat, Cic. Mil. 23, 61; Liv. 1, 9, 6; Suet. Ner. 43; Tac. H. 2, 47.— Rarely, of one person, a youth: ne praejudicium fiat impuberi per puberis personam, Dig. 37, 10, 3, § 8.—

II Transf., of plants, covered with soft down, downy, pubescent, ripe: folia, Verg. A. 12, 413: uvae, Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 4, 4 Mai.

2. pūbes — Lewis & Short

pūbes (is, f.1. pubes,

nom. pubis, Prud. Cath. 7, 162),

I the signs of manhood, i. e. the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, Gr. h(/bh.

I Lit.: si inguen jam pube contegitur, Cels. 7, 19: capillus et pubes, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 58.—

II Transf.

A The hair in gen.: ciliorum, Mart. Cap. 2, § 132.—

B The private parts, Verg. A. 3, 427; Ov. Am. 3, 12, 22; Plin. 11, 37, 83, § 208; 28, 15, 60, § 215; App. M. 10, p. 254, 3.—

C Collect., grown-up males, youth, young men (class.): omnem Italiae pubem, Cic. Mil. 23, 61; Verg. A. 5, 573: robora pubis Lecta, id. ib. 8, 518: Romana, Liv. 1, 9; Tac. A. 6, 1; id. H. 2, 47; Sil. 1, 667.—Poet., transf., of bullocks, Verg. G. 3, 174.—

2 In gen., men, people, population: pube praesenti, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 124; Cat. 64, 4; 268; 68, 101: Dardana, Verg. A. 7, 219: captiva, Hor. C. 3, 5, 18: Romana, id. ib. 4, 4, 46 al.—

III Trop., fulness, ripeness: pube agri variorum seminum laeti, Amm. 24, 5, 1.

3. pübes — Walde–Hofmann

pübes, Pisani Re. Acc, Linc. s. VI v. 3 p. 427, Walde-P. II 83). — Verfehlt setzt Muller Ait. W. 256 unter Heranziehung von swuritus und u.-etr. maró (doch s. dd.) einen r-St. *mar- an (es ist s-St.; der Gen. Pl. marium, obschon früher belegt als marum, ist sekun- .' där wie in eiriwm und anderen urspr. konson. Stämmen), — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. pübes, p. 953]

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Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. pübes (scan p. 953; entry #1711). Root candidates: *mar-.

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