The corpus record — Latin

sabulo

sabulo · m

coarse sand

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Where it lives

De Architectura 6 · 1.04/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k

What it meant

săbŭlo — Lewis & Short

săbŭlo, ōnis, m. (săbŭlum, i, n., Varr. ap.

Non. 169, 10; Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 25; 31, 3, 28, § 48; 36, 25, 63, § 188; Curt. 7, 4, 27),

I coarse sand, gravel (syn.: harena, glarea), Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 5; Col. 3, 11, 9; 4, 33, 1; Vitr. 2, 3; 8, 1; Pall. Aug. 8, 2.—Sync.: să_blo and să_blum, Ven. Fort. 9, 15, 5.

In the wild

sabulone Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.4.5
sabulone Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.3.1
sabulonem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.11.9
sabulonem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.33.1
sabulone Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.3.1
sabulone Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.1.2

6 of 8 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.