The corpus record — Latin

sebum

sebum · n

tallow

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Where it lives

De Medicina 31 · 3.02/10k
Naturalis Historia 75 · 1.89/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

1. sēbum — Lewis & Short

sēbum (sēvum; cf. the letter B; and i, n.,

Freund ad Cic. Mil. p. 34),

I tallow, suet, grease (syn.: adeps, pingue), Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 31; Col. 7, 5, 13; Plin. 11, 37, 85, § 212; Pall. 1, 41, 3; Veg. 4, 1, 8; Ser. Samm. 41, 763.

2. sébum — Walde–Hofmann

sébum, -; n. „Talg, Unschlitt“ (seit Plaut., rom. (Gróber ALL. 5,463]; vgl. sebösus „fett“ seit Plin. [vgl. Cogn. Sebösus seit Cie.], sebo, -äre „mache fett^ seit Colum., söbälis, -& „fettig“ seit Amm., sebäceus ds. seit Apul, sebdcrürius [sebb-] Inschr. [Fiebinger RE. II 2,9491]: s. sapo (Wzf. *se[zjb-?). — Walde-P. II 468. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sébum, p. 1410]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. sébum (scan p. 631; entry #10416).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sébum (scan p. 1410; entry #2524).

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