The corpus record — Latin

rapum

rapum · n

a turnip

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Where it lives

Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 20 · 0.5/10k
De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

rāpum — Lewis & Short

rāpum, i, n.akin to Gr. r(a/fh, r(afa/nh (collat. form rāpa, ae, f.,

Col. 11, 3, 16; Scrib. Comp. 176; 177),

I a turnip, rape: Brassica rapa, Linn.; Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 4; Col. 2, 10, 22 sq.; Plin. 18, 13, 33, § 125; flung at one as an insult, Suet. Vesp. 4.—

II A knob or lump formed by the roots of a tree: magnarum arborum truncos cum rapo suo transtulit, Sen. Ep. 86, 17; cf. id. ib. 86, 18.

In the wild

6 of 37 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. rapum (scan p. 588; entry #9657).

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