The corpus record — Latin

ramosus

ramosus · adj

full of boughs

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Naturalis Historia 38 · 0.96/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rāmōsus — Lewis & Short

rāmōsus, a, um, adj.ramus,

I full of boughs, having many branches, branching, branchy.

I Lit.: arbor, Lucr. 5, 1096: ilex, Ov. M. 8, 237; cf.: domus Silvani, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 5. stipes, Ov. F. 3, 751. — Comp.: lappago, Plin. 26, 10, 65, § 102. — Sup., Tert. Apol. 35.—

II Transf., branching: cornua cervi, Verg. E. 7, 30: corpora, Lucr. 2, 446; Claud. Cons. Stil. 3, 291: radices, Plin. 21, 15, 52, § 89.— Comp.: folium, Plin. 21, 10, 32, § 58. — Sup.: curalium, Plin. 32, 2, 11, § 22.—Poet., of the clouds, branchy, forked, Lucr. 6, 133.—Of the Lernæan hydra, from whose trunk young serpents grew out like branches, Ov. M. 9, 73: vitae nescius error diducit mentes ramosa in compita, into many devious ways, Pers. 5, 35.

In the wild

ramosis Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.446
ramosae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.30.p2
ramosa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p3
ramosam Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.73
ramosa Persius, Saturae 5.35
ramoso Ovid, Fasti 3.751

6 of 55 attestations shown.

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