The corpus record — Latin

Saburra2

Saburra2 · f

sand

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

Where it lives

De Bello Civili 9 · 2.79/10k
De Bello Africo 3 · 2.31/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. săburra — Lewis & Short

săburra, ae, f.kindr. with sabulo,

I sand, esp. in ships as ballast: onerarias multā saburrā gravatas, Liv. 37, 14 fin.: fluctu jactante saburram, Verg. G. 4, 195; Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 201; 10, 23, 30, § 60.

2. Săburra — Lewis & Short

Săburra (Sabbŭra), ae, m.,

I a lieutenant of King Juba, Caes. B. C. 2, 38, 1; 40, 1; 41, 2; Hirt. B. Afr. 95, 1.—Form Sabbŭra, Sil. 15, 441; Luc. 4, 723.

In the wild

saburrae Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.8.9
saburrae Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 24.100
Saburra Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.42.1
Saburra Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.38.3
Saburra Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.40.1
Saburrae Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.40.1

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. saburra (scan p. 609; entry #9977).

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.