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ulna

forearm

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Silvae 4 · 1.6/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Punica 7 · 0.92/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ulna — de Vaan

ulna 'forearm' [£ a] (Catullus+) Pit. *olena- 'forearm'. PIE *Heh3i-en- (or *HoHl-en-) or *Hh3-el-en- (or *HHol-en-) 'elbow'. IE cognates: Olr. uilen 'angle', W. elin, BreL ilin < PCI. *ο/έκ-; Skt. aratni- [m.] 'elbow, ell', YAv. fraradniMrqjah- [n.] 'length of an ell', aredna [du,] 'two elbows', OP arasnis [acc.pl.] 'ell', Gr. ώλενη [f], ώλήν, -ένος [f.] 'elbow, underann', ώλλόν 'elbow' (Hsch.) (< *ol-n-om\ OPr. … — [de Vaan, s.v. ulna, p. 652]

2. ulna — Lewis & Short

ulna, ae, f.Gr. w)le/nh; Goth. aleina; Germ. Elle; cf. Ellenbogen; Engl. ell,

I the elbow.

I Lit., Plin. 11, 43, 98, § 243.—

II Transf.

A Poet., in gen., the arm: tremula patris dormientis in ulnā, Cat. 17, 13; Prop. 2, 18 (3, 10), 9; Ov. M. 7, 847; 9, 652; 11, 63; Luc. 3, 664; Sil. 3, 457; 10, 499; Stat. S. 5, 3, 266 al.—

B As a measure of length.

1 An ell, Verg. E. 3, 105; id. G. 3, 355; Hor. Epod. 4, 8; Ov. M. 8, 748. —

2 As much as a man can clasp with both arms, a fathom, Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 202.

In the wild

ulnas Statius, Thebais 10.515
ulna Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.136
ulnae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.43.p1
ulnis Silius Italicus, Punica 14.480
ulnae Statius, Thebais 6.672
ulna Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.234

6 of 45 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. ulna (scan p. 652; entry #1867). Root candidates: *olena-, *alen-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ulna (scan p. 768; entry #12818).

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