The corpus record — Latin

thalamus

thalamus · m

an inner room

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Where it lives

Octavia 22 · 42.05/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 6 · 27.43/10k
Medea 11 · 19.43/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Parentalia 4 · 15.39/10k
Oedipus 8 · 13.48/10k
Troades 9 · 13.21/10k
Phoenissae 5 · 12.23/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 7 · 10.04/10k
In Eutropium 7 · 9.75/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 8 · 9.47/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k

Densest 12 of 62 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. thălămus — Lewis & Short

thălămus, i, m., = qa/lamos,

I an inner room, chamber, apartment (poet.).

I Lit

A In gen.: Pars secreta domus ... Tres habuit thalamos, quorum tu, Pandrose, dextrum, Aglauros laevum, medium possederat Herse, Ov. M. 2, 738: ferreique Eumenidum thalami, Verg. A. 6, 280; cf.: delubra ei gemina, quae vocant thalamos, Plin. 8, 46, 71, § 185; and of bees: ubi jam thalamis se conposuere, Verg. G. 4, 189.—

B Esp., a sleeping-room, bedchamber (cf.: cubiculum, dormitorium, cubile), Verg. A. 6, 623; Ov. M. 10, 456; id. H. 12, 57 al.; cf. Vitr. 6, 10.—

II Transf.

A A marriage - bed, bridal-bed (cf.: lectus, conjugium, conubium), Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 14; 3, 7 (4, 6), 49; Petr. 26.—Hence,

B Transf., marriage, wedlock (very freq. both in sing. and plur.); sing.: thalami expers vitam Degere, Verg. A. 4, 550; cf.: si non pertaesum thalami taedaeque fuisset, id. ib. 4, 18: quantum in conubio natae thalamoque moratur, id. ib. 7, 253; so id. ib. 7, 388; 9, 594; Ov. M. 3, 267; 10, 571; Stat. Th. 5, 463 al. — Plur.: thalamos ne desere pactos, Verg. A. 10, 649; Ov M. 1, 658; 7, 22; 12, 193; id. Am. 1, 8, 19; id. F. 3, 689; Hor. C. 1, 15, 16; Mart. 10, 63, 7; Sen. Agam. 256; 992; Val. Fl. 1, 226.

2. thalamus — Walde–Hofmann

thalamus, -; m. „Zimmer, Schlafzimmer; Ehelager, Ehe“ (seit Verg, rom.): entl aus gr. 8dAapoc m. ds. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. thalamus, p. 1587]

In the wild

thalamis Seneca, Octavia 1
thalami Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.267
thalami Silius Italicus, Punica 3.63
thalamos Claudian, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.154
thalamis Seneca, Octavia 1
thalamum Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 30.164

6 of 394 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. thalamus (scan p. 714; entry #11838).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. thalamus (scan p. 1587; entry #2997).

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