The corpus record — Latin

recurvus

recurvus · adj

turned back

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

rĕ-curvus — Lewis & Short

rĕ-curvus, a, um, adj.,

I turned back, bent, crooked, or curved back (a poet. word of the Aug. per.; also in post-Aug. prose; syn.: reduncus, repandus): cornu, * Verg. A. 7, 513; Ov. M. 5, 327; id. F. 5, 119: puppis, id. M. 8, 141; 11, 464; 15, 698: fibrae radicis, id. ib. 14, 632: hederae nexus, winding, id. ib. 3, 664; cf. tectum, i. e. the Labyrinth, id. H. 10, 71: aera, i. e. hooks, fishhooks, id. F. 6, 240: tergum (delphini), id. ib. 2, 113 et saep.: conchae ad buccinum recurvae, Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 103.

In the wild

recurvum Celsus, De Medicina 8.1.p6
recurvis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.80
recurvis Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.327
recurvum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.18.2
recurvam Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.141
recurvam Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.698

6 of 10 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.