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The corpus record — Latin

umbrosus

umbrosus · adj

full of shade

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Where it lives

  • Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
  • Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
  • Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
  • de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
  • de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
  • Elegiae 3 · 2.43/10k
  • Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
  • Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
  • Ars Amatoria 3 · 2.02/10k
  • Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
  • Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
  • Elegiae 4 · 1.58/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

umbrōsus — Lewis & Short

umbrōsus, a, um, adj.id.,

I full of shade, shady, umbrageous (class.; cf. opacus): locus umbrosior, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 3: fere aquosissima sunt quaecumque umbrosissima, Sen. Q. N. 3, 11, 4: fico folium maximum umbrosissimumque, Plin. 16, 26, 49, § 113: inter densas, umbrosa cacumina, fagos, Verg. E. 2, 3: Silae, Prop. 1, 20, 7; Ov. M. 1, 693: in umbrosis lucis, Hor. C. 1, 4, 11: nemus, Ov. M. 7, 75: salices, id. F. 3, 17: vallis, Verg. G. 3, 331: harundo, id. A. 8, 34: orae Heliconis, Hor. C. 1, 12, 5: arx Parnasi, Ov. M. 1, 467: Ida, id. ib. 11, 762: tecta, Tib. 1, 4, 1: cavernae, Verg. A. 8, 242: ripa, Hor. C. 3, 1, 23: templa, Ov. M. 11, 360.—Subst. plur.: umbrōsa, ōrum, n., the twilight, dim light (opp. tenebrae, clara lux), Sen. Ep. 94, 20.

In the wild

6 of 77 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. umbrosus (scan p. 769; entry #12844).

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