The corpus record — Latin

reboo

reboo · v. n

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

rĕ-bŏo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-bŏo, āre, v. n. and

I a.

I Neutr., to bellow back, resound, re-echo (poet.): reboant silvaeque et longus Olympus, * Verg. G. 3, 223; so, rupti poli, Sil. 17. 252: et reboat raucum regio cita barbara bombum, Lucr. 4, 546: reboatque ursa superba lupis, Val. Fl. 3, 634: ubi cymbalum sonat vox, ubi tympana reboant, Cat. 63, 21.—

II Act., to cause to resound, make echo (poet.): nec citharis reboant laqueata aurataque templa, Lucr. 2, 28: reboat te quicquid carminis echo Respondet silvae, Nemes. Ecl. 1, 73.

In the wild

reboat Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.546
reboant Ausonius, Epistularum 29.21
reboat Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 8.10
reboatque Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.634
reboat Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.616
reboant Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.28

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.