The corpus record — Latin

temo1

temo1 · m

a beam

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 4 · 37.38/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Thebais 8 · 1.28/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tēmo — Lewis & Short

tēmo, ōnis, m.root tek-; cf.: texo, telum,

I a beam, pole, tongue of a plough, carriage, cart, etc.

I Lit., Varr L. L. 7, § 73; Col. 6, 2, 7; Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 109; Verg. G. 3, 173; Ov. M. 2, 107; 11, 258 al.—

II Transf.

A (Pars pro toto.) A wagon (poet.): de temone Britanno Excidet Arviragus, Juv. 4, 126. —

2 The constellation called the Wain or Wagon of Bootes, Charles's Wain, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 73 (Trag. v. 245 Vahl.); Stat. Th. 1, 370; 1, 692; cf. Cic. 1. 1.; Ov. M. 10, 447.—

B A pole, Col. 6, 19, 2.

2. temo — Lewis & Short

temo, ōnis, m.,

I a sum of money paid instead of furnishing recruits, commutationmoney, Cod. Th. 6, 26, 14 sq.

In the wild

temonis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.4.5
temone Propertius, Elegiae 4.8.21
temo Statius, Thebais 7.751
temonis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.4.2
temo Vergil, Georgicon 1.171
temone Lucan, Pharsalia 4.523

6 of 52 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.