The corpus record — Latin

sarcophagus

sarcophagus · adj

a kind of limestone used for coffins

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

sarcŏphăgus — Lewis & Short

sarcŏphăgus, a, um, adj., = sarkofa(/gos (flesh-devouring, carnivorous): sarcophagus lapis,

I a kind of limestone used for coffins (so called because the corpses were quickly consumed by it), Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211; 36, 17, 27, § 161.—In medicine, Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 140.—

II Transf., subst.: sarcŏphăgus, i, m. († sarcŏphă-gum, i, n., Inscr. Don. 7, 8), a grave, sepulchre (post-Aug.), Juv. 10, 172; Dig. 11, 7, 37; 34, 1, 18 fin.; Prud. Cath. 3, 203; Inscr. Orell. 194; 4432; 4554 al.

In the wild

sarcophago Prudentius, Cathemerina 3.203
sarcophago Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.9.p5
sarcophago Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.36.p31
sarcophago Juvenal, Saturae 4.10.172
sarcophagus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.96
sarcophagus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.17.p1

6 of 7 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. sarcophagus (scan p. 619; entry #10176).

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