The corpus record — Latin

saetosus

saetosus · adj

full of coarse hairs

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

saetōsus — Lewis & Short

saetōsus (sēt-), a, um, adj.saeta,

I full of coarse hairs or bristles, bristly, setous (mostly poet.; cf.: villosus, pilosus): aper, Verg. E. 7, 29; cf.: setosa membra (of the sailors of Ulysses, transformed into swine by Circe), Hor. Epod. 17, 15: aures tauri, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 181: frons, Hor. S. 1, 5, 61; cf. pectus, Cels. 2, 8: verbera, made of goats' hair, Prop. 4, 1, 25.

In the wild

saetosa Propertius, Elegiae 4.1.25
setosa Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.29.3
saetosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.45.p2
saetosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.50
saetosus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.50
saetosa Horace, Epodon 17.15

6 of 13 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.