The corpus record — Latin

umbo

umbo · m

A boss

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

Where it lives

De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Achilleis 3 · 4.16/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Thebais 13 · 2.08/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Punica 11 · 1.44/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

umbo — Lewis & Short

umbo, ōnis, m.kindr. with a)/mbwn, o)mfalo/s, umbilicus; Germ. Nabel; Engl. navel; prop. any convex elevation; hence,

I A boss of a shield, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 432 Vahl.); Verg. A. 2, 546: scutis magis quam gladiis geritur res: umbonibus incussāque alā sternuntur hostes, Liv. 9, 41, 18.—

B Transf., a shield (in prose not ante-Aug.; syn. clipeus), Verg. A. 7, 633; 9, 810; 10, 884; Sil. 4, 354; Liv. 4, 19, 5; 30, 34, 3; Auct. ap. Quint. 8, 5, 24: junctae umbone phalanges, Juv. 2, 46; cf. Luc. 6, 192: umbone se protegere, Just. 33, 2.— Trop.: judicialis, Val. Max. 8, 5, 4.—

II The elbow, Mart. 3, 46, 5; Stat. Th. 2, 670; Suet. Caes. 68 fin.—

III A promontory, Stat. Achill. 1, 408.—Hence, transf., Isthmius, the Isthmus of Corinth, Stat. Th. 7, 15. —

IV A projecting boundary-stone in fields, Stat. Th. 6, 352.—

V A projecting part of a precious stone, a knob, boss, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 88.—

VI The full part or swelling of a garment, Tert. Pall. 5.—Hence, transf.: umbo candidus, a toga, Pers. 5, 33.

In the wild

umbonibus Statius, Silvae 4.3.47
umbone Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 1.128
umbonibus Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.41.18
umbonibus Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 p34
umbonis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.2.23.p2
umbo Statius, Achilleis 1.408

6 of 77 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.