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raucus

raucus · adj

hoarse

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 84.39/10k
De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 58.82/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Elegiae 6 · 2.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. raucus — Lewis & Short

raucus, a, um, adj.from root ru-, to make a loud noise, ravus,

I hoarse.

I Lit. (freq. and class.): rogitando sum raucus factus, Plaut. Ep. 2, 1, 16: expurigabo ad raucam ravim omnia, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 164, 19: nos raucos saepe attentissime audiri video: at Aesopum, si paulum irrauserit, explodi, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 259; Prop. 1, 16, 39: cornices, Lucr. 6, 751: palumbes, Verg. E. 1, 58: cicadae, id. ib. 2, 12: fauces, Lucr. 6, 1189; cf. guttur, Ov. M. 2, 484: os aselli, id. F. 1, 433: vox (ranarum), id. M. 6, 377: garrulitas (picarum), id. ib. 5, 678: stridor (simiae), id. ib. 14, 100: quaere peregrinum vicinia rauca reclamat, screaming herself hoarse, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 62; cf. circus, Juv. 8, 59 Rup.: causidici, Mart. 4, 8, 2: rogatores, id. 10, 5, 4: Codrus, Juv. 1, 2: cohors (Gallorum), id. 6, 514: illa (puella) sonat raucum quiddam, Ov. A. A. 3, 289; cf. the foll.— Poet., in gen., of the swan: dant sonitum rauci per stagna loquacia cygni, Verg. A. 11, 458.— Comp.: raucior, Mart. Cap. 1, § 28; Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 704.—

2 Transf., of inanimate things, hoarse, hollow, or deep sounding, harsh, rough, grating, etc. (only in the poets): cornu, Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 41: cymbala, id. 3, 17 (4, 16), 36: tibia, id. 3, 10 (4, 9), 23: ossa (tubae), id. 4 (5), 3, 20; cf. aes (i. e. tuba), Verg. G. 4, 71 et saep.: murmur (undae), id. ib. 1, 109; cf. Hadria, Hor. C. 2, 14, 14: litus, Stat. Th. 5, 291: Aquilo, Mart. 1, 50, 20: tonitrua, Stat. Th. 2, 40: postes, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 49. cf. Ov. Am. 1, 6, 50: aes (i. e. scutum). Verg. A. 2, 545 et saep.: amnis Rauca sonans, id. ib. 9, 125; cf.: tumidus post flamina pontus Rauca gemit, Luc. 5, 217: arma raucum gemuere, Sil. 2, 245; cf. Ov. A. A. 3, 289.—

II Trop.: te vero nolo, nisi ipse rumor jam raucus erit factus, ad Baias venire, has become faint, died away, Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 5.

2. raucus — Walde–Hofmann

raucus, -a, -um „heiser, schrillend, dumpf, schnarrend^ (seit Enn. und Plaut, rom.; raucesö „bin heiser* seit Fulg., raucedo „Heiserkeit“ seit Aug., raueitäs ds, seit Cels. [raucitüdó seit Hippocr., raucilitäs Cl], raueio, i, -sum, -ire „bin heiser“ seit Lucil, raucifluus Gl., raucisonus seit Catull. [-soräns Symph.), r äviö, -ire „rede heiser* seit Plt., ebenso ruavis, Akk. -im „Heiserkeit“ [rärulus „etwas heiser“ … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. raucus, p. 1326]

In the wild

raucaque Ovid, Fasti 4.212
raucum Vergil, Georgicon 1.109
raucum Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.289
rauco Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.484
raucis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.9.p2
raucus Plautus, Epidicus 2.2

6 of 118 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. raucus (scan pp. 1326-1327; entry #2250). Root candidates: *reudh-.

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