The corpus record — Latin

ulcerosus

ulcerosus · adj

full of sores

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ulcĕrōsus — Lewis & Short

ulcĕrōsus, a, um, adj.ulcus,

I full of sores, ulcerous (very rare; not in Cic.).

I Lit.: facies, Tac. A. 4, 57.—

B Transf., of trees, knobby, full of knots, Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 106.—*

II Trop.: jecur, i. e. wounded (with love), Hor. C. 1, 25, 15.

In the wild

ulcerosum Horace, Carmina 1.25
ulcerosa Tacitus, Annales 4.p57
ulcerosa Prudentius, Cathemerina 9.31
ulcerosum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.14.p4
ulcerosus Apuleius, Apologia 43

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.