The corpus record — Latin

salebra

salebra · adj

a jolting-place

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Where it lives

Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. sălĕ_bra — Lewis & Short

sălĕ_bra, ae (orig. adj., sc. via), f.salio,

I a jolting-place, roughness in a road.

I Lit. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): demonstrant astra salebras, Prop. 3, 16 (4, 15), 15; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 53; Mart. 9, 58, 5: salebris sollicitari, Col. 9, 8, 3.—

II Transf.: senile guttur salebris spiritŭs praegravavit, irregular breathing, panting, Val. Max. 9, 12, ext. 6.—

III Trop.

A Of speech, harshness, roughness, ruggedness (class.): proclivi currit oratio: venit ad extremum: haeret in salebră, i.e. it sticks fast, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84; plur.: Herodotus sine ullis salebris fluit, id. Or. 12, 39: numquam in tantas salebras incidisset, id. Fin. 2, 10, 30; Mart. 11, 90, 2.—*

B Salebra tristitiae, i. e. a cloud of sadness, Val. Max. 6, 9, ext. 5.

2. salebra — Walde–Hofmann

salebra, -ae f. „holprige Stelle des Weges‘; bildl. von der Unebenheit der Darstellung (seit Cic.), salebrösus, -a, -um „holprig, uneben, rauh" (seit Moretus), salebritäs ,Holprigkeit* Apul, salebrütina Sidon.: zu salió (Curtius 548, Vaméek 298, Osthoff IF. 6, 17), u. zw. kaum nach Walde LEW. 671 auf Grund eines (Aorist-) Präs. *salere (vgl. gr. &Aéa8a), sondern nach Leumann-Stolz5 219 wie scatebra Nachbldg. von … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. salebra, p. 1373]

In the wild

salebras Apuleius, Florida 21
salebris Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.8.3
salebras Martial, Epigrammata 11.90.2
salebra Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.84
salebras Propertius, Elegiae 3.16.17
salebris Cicero, Orator 39

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. salebra (scan p. 1373; entry #2386).

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