The corpus record — Latin

terebra

terebra · f

An instrument for boring

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Where it lives

De Medicina 10 · 0.98/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6 · 0.76/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

tĕrē^bra — Lewis & Short

tĕrē^bra, ae, f. (

I neutr. collat. form tĕ-rē^brum, Hier. in Isa. 12, 44, 12 al.) [tero].

I An instrument for boring, a borer, an auger, gimlet, Cato, R. R. 41, 3; Col. 4, 29, 15 sq.; Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 198; 17, 15, 25, § 116; 37, 13, 76, § 200.—

II As a surgical instrument, a trephine, Cels. 8, 3.—

III A military engine for boring through walls in sieges, Vitr. 10, 13, 7.

In the wild

terebra Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.16.5
terebram Celsus, De Medicina 8.2.p4
terebra Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.3.6
terebra Celsus, De Medicina 8.3.p1
terebram Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.29.16
terebra Celsus, De Medicina 8.3.p1

6 of 23 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.