The corpus record — Latin

trabs

trabs · f

a beam

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Saturae 3 · 6.63/10k
Thyestes 3 · 4.76/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Phaedra 3 · 4.22/10k
Achilleis 3 · 4.16/10k
De Architectura 24 · 4.16/10k
De agri cultura 5 · 3.2/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.01/10k
Topica 2 · 2.92/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k

Densest 12 of 74 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. trabs — Lewis & Short

trabs, trăbis (ante-class. collat. form of the trăbes, Enn. ap. f.tra/phc.

nom.Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75; id. Fat. 15, 35; id. Top. 16, 61, or Trag. v. 281 Vahl.; Cic. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 33 Müll., or Ann. v. 598 Vahl.),

I Lit., a beam, a timber: tigna trabesque, Lucr. 2, 192 sq.; v. tignum; Caes. B. G. 2, 29; 3, 13; 7, 23; id. B. C. 2, 9; Plin. 16, 38, 73, § 184; Gell. 1, 13, 17; Ov. M. 3, 78.—

II Transf.

A A tree: silva frequens trabibus, Ov. M. 8, 329; cf. id. ib. 14, 360: securi Saucia trabs ingens, id. ib. 10, 373; cf. Varr. ap. Non. 178, 31; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 38. fraxineae, Verg. A. 6, 181: lucus trabibus obscurus acernis, id. ib. 9, 87: Val. Fl. 5, 640. —

B Any thing made of beams or timbers.

1 Very freq., a ship or vessel: abiegna trabes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75: trabes rostrata per altum, id. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 33: jam mare turbari trabibus ... vide bis, Verg. A. 4, 566: ut trabe Cypria Myrtoum pavidus nauta secet mare, Hor. C. 1, 1, 13; Ov. P. 1, 3, 76: Thessalica, Sen. Agam. 120.—

2 A roof: sub trabe citreā, Hor. C. 4, 1, 20; so in plur., id. ib. 2, 18, 3; 3, 2, 28. —

3 A battering - ram, ballista, etc., Val. Fl. 6, 383.—

4 A javelin, Stat. Th. 5, 566; 9, 124.—

5 A club, cudgel, Stat. Th. 1, 621.—

6 A table, Mart. 14, 91, 2.—

7 A torch, Sen. Herc. Fur. 103. —

8 In mal. part. = mentula, Cat. 28, 10.—

C A fiery phenomenon in the heavens, a meteor: emicant et trabes simili modo, quas dokou\s vocant, qualis cum Lacedaemonii classe victi imperium Graeciae amisere, Plin. 2, 26, 26, § 96: trabes et globi et faces et ardores, Sen. Q. N. 1, 1, 5; 1, 1, 15; 1, 15, 4; 7, 4, 3-5; 7, 5, 21; id. Ep. 94, 56.

2. trabs — Walde–Hofmann

trabs, trabös (Enn., vgl. Varro ling. 7,33 euius verbi [sc. trabés] singuläris eäsus rüctus correptus ac face trabs) -is f. „Balken, Schiff; Baumstamm, Baum; Dach, Haus* (seit Enn., rom.; trabécula, -ae f. Cato [trabr-), -icwla seit Lex pariet. fac. Put. [rom, "trabiculum n.] „kleiner Balken", trabica, -ae f. [sc. navis] „Floß“ seit Enn., trabälis, -e „zu den Balken gehörig“ [sc. clàvus], „balkenstark* seit Cic., … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. trabs, p. 1604]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. trabs (scan p. 722; entry #12005).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. trabs (scan pp. 1604-1607; entry #3056). Root candidates: *terabno-, *irep-, *trab-.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.