The corpus record — Latin

saburro

to fill

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Where it lives

Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

săburro — Lewis & Short

săburro, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a. id., to fill or lade with ballast, to ballast (rare).

I Lit.: sese harenā (echini), Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 361.—Mid., to ballast one's self: grues sublatis lapillis ad moderatam gravitatem saburrantur, Sol. 10.—

II Transf.: ubi saburratae sumus, we are stuffed full, crammed full, comic. for saturatae, Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 2; so, too, perh. sanguis, i. e. of a drunken person, Arn. 5, 12 Orell. N. cr.

In the wild

saburratae Plautus, Cistellaria 1.2
saburra Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.6.9
saburra Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.103
saburra Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.14.5
saburra Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 p12
saburra Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.40.p1

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.