The corpus record — Latin

umbraculum

umbraculum · n

any thing that furnishes shade

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

umbrācŭlum — Lewis & Short

umbrācŭlum, i, n.umbra (

I any thing that furnishes shade).

I Lit., a shady place, bower, arbor, Varr. R. R. 1, 51, 2; Cic. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4; Verg. E. 9, 42.—

B Transf., a school: in solem et pulverem, ut e Theophrasti doctissimi hominis umbraculis, Cic. Brut. 9, 37: ex umbraculis eruditorum in solem atque in pulverem, id. Leg. 3, 6, 14.—

II A sunshade, parasol, umbrella, Ov. F. 2, 311; id. A. A. 2, 209; Mart. 14, 28, 1; Tib. 2, 5, 97; Amm. 28, 4; App. Mag. p. 315, 16.

In the wild

umbraculo Apuleius, Apologia 63
umbraculo Prudentius, Cathemerina 7.140
umbracula Tibullus, Elegiae 2.5.97
umbracula Statius, Silvae 1.2.222
umbracula Claudian, In Eutropium 1.464
umbracula Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.123

6 of 17 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.