The corpus record — Latin

ululabilis

ululabilis · adj

howling

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 6 · 0.47/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k

What it meant

ŭlŭlābĭlis — Lewis & Short

ŭlŭlābĭlis, e, adj.ululo, the shrieker,

I howling, yelling, wailing (post-class.): plangor, App. M. 4, p. 143, 31: vox, id. ib. 5, p. 161, 40: clamor, id. ib. 10, p. 240, 28; Amm. 24, 1, 7.

In the wild

ululabiles Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.9.15
ululabilis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.5.5
ululabilis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.7
ululabili Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.4.15
ululabili Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.5
ululabili Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.6.7

6 of 8 attestations shown.

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.