The corpus record — Latin

uber2

uber2 · n

a teat

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

Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Dittochaeon 2 · 16.34/10k
Eclogues 5 · 11.02/10k
Epodon 3 · 9.98/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Georgicon 10 · 7.07/10k
In Eutropium 5 · 6.96/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k

Densest 12 of 142 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ūber — Lewis & Short

ūber, ĕris, n.Gr. ou)=qar; Sanscr. ūdhar; cf. O. H. Germ. uter; Engl. udder; cf. the letter B,

I a teat, pap, dug, udder, a breast that gives suck (mostly poet. and in post Aug. prose).

(a) Sing., Lucr. 1, 887: lactantes ubere toto, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 103 P. (Ann. v. 71 Vahl.): (vitula) binos alit ubere fetus, Verg. E. 3, 30: ut vix sustineant distentum cruribus uber, Ov. M. 13, 826: vituio ab ubere rapto, id. F. 4, 459: cum a nutricis ubere auferretur, Suet. Tib. 6.—

(b) Plur. (so most freq.): saepe etiam nunc (puer) Ubera mammarum in somnis lactantia quaeret, Lucr. 5, 885: lactea, Verg. G. 2, 524: capreoli Bina die siccant ovis ubera, id. E. 2, 42; cf.: ad sua quisque fere decurrunt ubera lactis (agni), Lucr. 2, 370: lactis, Tib. 1, 3, 46: mammarum, Gell. 12, 1, 7: candens lacteus umor Uberibus manat distentis, Lucr. 1, 259: distenta, Hor. Epod. 2, 46: equina, id. ib. 8, 8: tenta, id. ib. 16, 50: natos uberibus gravidis vitali rore rigabat, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20; cf.: (Romulus) cum esset silvestris beluae sustentatus uberibus, id. Rep. 2, 2, 4: uberaque ebiberant avidi lactantia nati, Ov. M. 6, 342: sua quemque mater uberibus alit, Tac. G. 20.—

II Transf.

A Of the earth, the fruitful breast, etc.: alma tellus annuā vice mortalibus distenta musto demittit ubera, Col. 3, 21, 3: ubera campi, id. poët. 10, 90. —

B A cluster or mass in the shape of an udder, of bees hanging from trees when swarming, Pall. Jun. 7, 6 and 9.—

C Richness, fruitfulness, fertility: quique frequens herbis et fertilis ubere campus, Verg. G. 2, 185: divitis agri, id. A. 7, 262: glebae, id. ib. 1, 531: in denso non segnior ubere Bacchus, id. G. 2, 275; cf.: pecorique et vitibus almis Aptius uber erit, id. ib. 2, 234: vitis, Col. 4, 27, 5: palmitis Etrusci, Claud. B. G. 504.

2. ūber — Lewis & Short

ūber, ĕris (

abl. uberi;

I but ubere campo, Col. 6, 27, 1), adj [1. uber; cf. ibid. II. C.], rich in something, full, fruitful, fertile, abundant, plentiful, copious, productive (class.; syn.: ferax, fertilis, fecundus).

I Lit.: seges spicis uberibus et crebris, Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 91: messis, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 23: fruges, Hor. C. 4, 15, 5: itaque res uber fuit, antequam vastassent regiones, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 647 P.: Umbria me genuit terris fertilis uberibus, Prop. 1, 22, 10; cf.: in uberi agro, Liv. 29, 25, 12: uber solum, Tac. H. 5, 6: (Neptunus) Piscatu novo me uberi compotivit, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 6: onus, id. Ps. 1, 2, 64; cf. Col. 6, 27: bellum, productive in booty, Just. 38, 7, 9: gravis imber et uber. copious, Lucr. 6, 290: guttae, id. 1, 349: aquae, Ov. M. 3, 31: aqua prolluens et uber, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, 3: rivi, Hor. C. 2, 19, 10.—Comp.: agro bene culte nihil potest esse nec usu uberius nec specie ornatius, Cic. Sen. 16, 57: neque enim robustior aetas Ulla nec uberior (aestate), Ov. M. 15, 208: subtemen, fuller, stouter, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 20.—Sup.: uberrimi laetissimique fructus, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156.— With abl.: arbor ibi niveis uberrima pomis, Ov. M. 4, 89: (Sulmo) gelidis uberrimus undis, id. Tr. 4, 10, 3: uberrimus quaestus, the most profitable, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 22: equum nimis strigosum et male habitum, sed equitem ejus uberrimum et habitissimum viderunt, exceedingly stout, plump, or fat, Massur. Sabin. ap. Gell. 4, 20, 11.— With gen.: regio cum aeris ac plumbi uberrima, tum et minio, Just. 44, 3, 4: frugum, Att. ap. Non. 498, 6.—Absol.: teneant uberrima Teucer Et Libys, the most fruitful regions, Val. Fl. 1, 510.—

II Trop., full, rich, copious, esp. of style and language: hoc Periclem praestitisse ceteris dicit oratoribus Socrates, quod is Anaxagorae physici fuerit auditor, a quo censet eum uberem et fecundum fuisse, Cic. Or. 4, 15: motus animi, qui ad explicandum ornandumque sint uberes, id. de Or. 1, 25, 113: theses ad excitationem dicendi mire speciosae atque uberes, Quint. 2, 4, 24.—Comp.: nullus feracior in eā (philosophiā) locus est nec uberior quam de officiis, Cic. Off. 3, 2, 5; id. Div. 1, 3, 6: aut majore delectatione aut spe uberiore commoveri, id. de Or. 1, 4, 13: quis uberior in dicendo Platone? id. Brut. 31, 121: uberiores litterae, id. Att. 13, 50, 1: Catoni seni comparatus C. Gracchus plenior et uberior, Tac. Or. 18: haec Africanus Petreiusque pleniora etiam atque uberiora Romam ad suos perscribant, Caes. B. C. 1, 53: tuasque Ingenio laudes uberiore canunt, Ov. Tr. 2, 74: in juvenibus etiam uberiora paulo et paene periclitantia feruntur, Quint. 11, 1, 32.—Sup.: doctissimi homines ingeniis uberrimis adfluentes, Cic. de Or. 3, 15, 57 (dub.; bracketed by B. and K.): uberrima supplicationibus triumphisque provincia, full of, id. Pis. 40, 97: uberrimae litterae, id. Att. 4, 16, 13: nec decet te ornatum uberrimis artibus, id. Brut. 97, 332: oratorum eā aetate uberrimus erat, Tac. A. 3, 31 fin.—Hence, adv., used only in the comp. and sup.

1 Lit., more fruitfully, more fully, more copiously or plentifully: uberius nulli provenit ista seges, Ov. P. 4, 2, 12: flere uberius, Cic. Phil. 2, 31, 77: mores mali quasi herba irrigua succreverunt uberrime, most luxuriantly, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 9.—

2 Trop., of style, etc., copiously, fully, Quint. 10, 3, 2: haec cum uberius disputantur et fusius, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20: loqui (with planius), id. Fam. 3, 11, 1: dicere (with latius), Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 11: explicare (with latius), Suet. Rhet. 1: locus uberrime tractatus, Cic. Div. 2, 1, 3.

3. über — Walde–Hofmann

über, -eris n. ,Euter, Zitze, Mutterbrust*; übtr. dicht. , Fruchtbarkeit, fruchtbarer Boden“ (seit Acc. und Verg), Adj. über, -eris (Komp. überior, Sup. überrimus) ‚fruchtbar, reich, ergiebig“ (seit Plaut., rom. neben *überinus) überö, -äre „trage Frucht“ und „befruchte* seit Colum. (überätiö Chron, min. I p. 168,173), überösum : YönuovGL, übertäs, -ätis f. „Fruchtbarkeit* seit Enn., übertim seit Catull 66, 17 … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. über, p. 1646]

In the wild

uberrimos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.8
uberrime Plautus, Trinummus 1.1
ubere Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.13
ubera Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.7
uberes Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.11.p7
ubere Ovid, Fasti 5.120

6 of 524 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. uber (scan p. 739; entry #12354).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. über (scan pp. 1646-1647; entry #3160). Root candidates: *eudh-, *oudA-, *oudh-.

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.