The corpus record — Latin

sabulosus

sabulosus · adj

full of sand

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 12 · 0.3/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

săbŭlōsus — Lewis & Short

săbŭlōsus, a, um, adj.sabulo,

I full of sand, sandy, gravelly: loca, Col. 2, 15, 4: arva, id. 2, 10, 23: terra, Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 28: solum, id. 35, 14, 49, § 170: aprica, id. 21, 29, 103, § 175: lutum, Vitr. 2, 3.

In the wild

sabulosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p7
sabulosa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.14
sabulosis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.15.4
sabulosaque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.4.p1
sabulosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p15
sabulosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.23

6 of 18 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.