The corpus record — Latin

umectus

umectus · adj

of a moist nature

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 3 · 1.92/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ūmectus — Lewis & Short

ūmectus (less correctly hū-), a, um, adj.umeo,

I of a moist nature, moist, damp, wet (ante- and post-class. for umidus): terra exhalat auram atque auroram umidam, umectam, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, 4, 9, § 24: locus umectus, Cato, R. R. 6, 3; Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 4; Lucr. 4, 634: sapor vini, Pall. Oct. 14, 18: qualitas caeli, id. 1, 16, 6.—Comp.: ventres umectiores, Macr. S. 7, 15 med.: nubes, App. de Deo Socr. p. 47.—Sup.: mulier umectissimo est corpore, Macr. S. 7, 6 med.; 7, 10.

In the wild

umectus Cato, De agri cultura 6
umectis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.7.13
umectus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.22.14
umectis Cato, De agri cultura 40
umectis Cato, De agri cultura 9
umectus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.2.10

6 of 7 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.