The corpus record — Latin

tabernaculum

tabernaculum · n

a tent

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Where it lives

Thrasybulus 1 · 16.67/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 50 · 6.74/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 2 · 3.76/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 3 · 2.22/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 3 · 2.03/10k
Amphitruo 2 · 2.03/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 7 · 1.6/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 2 · 1.58/10k
De Bello Civili 5 · 1.55/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tăbernācŭlum — Lewis & Short

tăbernācŭlum, i, n.taberna,

I a tent (syn. tentorium): tabernacula dicuntur a similitudine tabernarum, quae ipsae, quod ex tabulis olim fiebant, dictae sunt, non, ut quidam putant, quod tabulis cludantur, Fest. p. 356 Müll.; cf.: unde (sc. a tabernis) et tabernacula sunt dicta, licet ex tentoriis pellibus fiant, id. s. v. contubernales, p. 38 ib.

I In gen.: tabernaculo in litore posito, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87: in ipso aditu portus tabernacula carbaseis intenta velis collocabat, id. ib. 2, 5, 12, § 30: collocassem mihi in campo Martio, id. Pis. 25 61: militare, id. Brut. 9, 37: Caesar eo die tabernacula statui passus non est, Caes. B. C. 1, 81; Nep. Eum. 7, 1: tabernaculis stantibus castra reliquerunt, Liv. 22, 42, 2: tabernaculis detensis, Caes. B. C. 3, 85; Liv. 41, 3, 1: militare, Cic. Brut. 9, 37: regium, Liv. 24, 40, 11: regis, Curt. 3, 3, 8; 7, 10, 14: ducis, Tac. A. 1, 29: qui in unā philosophiā quasi tabernaculum vitae suae collocarunt, as it were, have pitched their tent, settled down, Cic. de Or. 3, 20, 77. —

II In partic., in relig. lang.: tabernaculum capere, to choose a place for a tent without the city, wherein to observe the auspices previous to holding the comitia: tabernaculum recte captum, in the proper manner, with due ceremonies, Cic. Div. 2, 35, 75; cf.: parum recte tabernaculum capere, Liv. 4, 7, 3: cum tabernaculum vitio cepisset imprudens, improperly, Cic. Div. 1, 17, 33: tabernaculum vitio captum, id. N. D. 2, 4, 11; Val. Max. 1, 1, 3.—

III The Jewish tabernacle, Vulg. Num. 7, 1 et saep.

In the wild

tabernaculi Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.12
tabernaculum Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 11
tabernaculo Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 6.38.2
tabernacula Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.46.4
tabernaculo Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.9.13
tabernaculum Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 3.12.15

6 of 168 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.