The corpus record — Latin

ululatus

ululatus · m

a howling

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

Where it lives

de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 3 · 2.03/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Thebais 8 · 1.28/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŭlŭlātŭs — Lewis & Short

ŭlŭlātŭs, ūs, m.id.,

I a howling, wailing, shrieking, as a sound of mourning or lamentation, Verg. A. 4, 667; Ov. M. 3, 179; 5, 153; 8, 447; Plin. 8, 40, 61, § 145: lugubris, Curt. 4, 15, 29; 5, 12, 12; Stat. Th. 9, 178 al.—The wild yells or warwhoops of the Gauls, Caes. B. G. 5, 37; 7, 80.—The wild cries and shouts of the Bacchanals, Cat. 63, 24; Ov. M. 3, 528; 3, 706.

In the wild

ululatibus Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 p12
ululatibusque Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.15.6
ululatibus Ovid, Fasti 4.453
ululatibus Statius, Thebais 5.697
ululatibus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.318
ululatibus Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.190

6 of 42 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.