The corpus record — Latin

scrobis

hole in the ground, pit

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 60 · 7.62/10k
De agri cultura 10 · 6.39/10k
Georgicon 4 · 2.83/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Naturalis Historia 51 · 1.29/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. scrobis — de Vaan

scrobis 'hole in the ground, pit' [m., f i] (P1.+) Derivatives: scrobiculus 'small planting-hole' (Varro+)T Pit *skrof-i~. PIE *skrobh-i- 4hollow, pit^ IE cognates: Lith, skreb&i, Is. skrebu 'to rattle, crunch', Ru. skrestU Is. skrebu 'to scratch, plane'; Latv. skrabt 'to scratch, plane', Po. skrobac; OE screpan 'schaben, kratzen\ j BSL points to a root in *-£> -, with which Gm. only partly agrees; but this may be … — [de Vaan, s.v. scrobis, p. 561]

2. scrŏbis — Lewis & Short

scrŏbis (collat. form scrobs, only acc. to is, m., less freq. f.root skrabh-, v. scribo.

Prisc. p. 751 P., and by a false read. in some edd. in Col. 4, 4, 1; 5, 5, 1 sq.; 5, 6, 18; 5, 10, 4),

I Lit., a ditch, dike, trench (syn. fossa; class.); masc., Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 225; 7; 8; Varr. Fragm. ib. 11; Cic. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. G. 2, 288; Col. 4, 1, 5; 5, 5, 2; 5, 5, 4; 5, 6, 18 et saep.— Fem., Gracchus ap. Serv. Verg. G. 2, 288; Ov. M. 7, 243; Luc. 8, 756; Col. 4, 4, 1; 12, 46, 4; Plin. 16, 31, 57, § 131; Tac. A. 15, 67 fin.; Pall. 1, 5, 3.—

II Transf.

1 A grave, Mart. 10, 97, 3; Tac. A. 1, 61 fin.; 15, 67 fin.; Suet. Ner. 49.—

2 Virginalis = pudendum muliebre, Arn. 4, 131.

In the wild

scrobes Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.5.1
scrobem Tacitus, Annales 15.p69
scrobibus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.13.1
scrobes Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.1.4
scrobe Lucan, Pharsalia 8.756
scrobem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.4.p4

6 of 150 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. scrobis (scan p. 561; entry #1574).

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