The corpus record — Latin

umeo

to be wet

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Where it lives

Mosella 3 · 9.23/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Punica 16 · 2.1/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Thebais 9 · 1.44/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Metamorphoses 11 · 1.42/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. umeo — de Vaan

umeo 'to be wet' [v. II] (Verg.+) Derivatives: umidus 'wet, moist* (Pac.+), umidiias 'moisture' (P1.+), umor 'moisture, fluid* (PL+), inumigare 'to make wet' (Andn), umecius 'moist, wet' (Cato+), umectare 'to make wet* (Lucr.+); uligo 'waterlogged ground, marsh* (Cato+), uligindsus 'ill-drained' (Varro+). Pit *umo- 'wet'. PIE *uh r mo- 'wet*. IE cognates: see s.v. urina-. umerus WH and EM derive um- from an … — [de Vaan, s.v. umeo, p. 653]

2. ūmĕo — Lewis & Short

ūmĕo (less correctly hū-), no

I perf. nor sup., ēre, 2, v. n. v. umor, to be moist, damp, wet (poet. and post-Aug.; most freq. in part. pres.).

A Verb. finit.: calidā qui locus umet aquā, Ov. F. 4, 146: stagnata paludibus ument, id. M. 15, 269: ument genae, id. H. 8, 64: arbor lacrimis cadentibus umet, id. M. 10, 509.—

B Part. pres.: frigida pugnabant calidis, umentia siccis, Ov. M. 1, 19: umentes terrae (Nilo), Plin. Pan. 30, 4; Ov. M. 1, 604: litora, Verg. A. 7, 763: umentes spongias, Suet. Vesp. 16: umens caelum, Flor. 2, 4, 2: fluvius, Sil. 13, 123: genae, Tib. 1, 9, 38; so, oculi, Ov. M. 11, 464: oculi atque ora, Sil. 9, 30: umentemque Aurora polo dimoverat umbram, i. e. the cool night, Verg. A. 3, 589: umentis rores noctis, Sil. 2, 469: astra, Stat. Th. 3, 2.

3. ümeö — Walde–Hofmann

ümeö, (h- volkset. nach humus, s. Keller Volkset. 132, vgl. Varro ling. 5,24), -uz, -ere „bin feucht“ (seit Plaut.); (idus, -a, -um „feucht“ (seit Varro, rom.; ümidulus, -a, -um ds. seit Ov.; umidö, -äre „mache feucht“ G1); (meetus, -a, -um „feucht* (seit Cic.; Bildg. wie frutectum oben 1554; davon #mectö, -äre „mache feucht“ seit Verg.; umectatió, -Onis f. ,Befeuchtung" seit Cael. Aur.); àmigó, -are „benetze* (seit … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ümeö, p. 1723]

In the wild

Umentes Claudian, de bello Gildonico 1.213
umentibus Statius, Silvae 3.1.145
umenti Silius Italicus, Punica 3.522
umente Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.691
umentibus Tacitus, Historiae 3.51
Ument Ovid, Epistulae 8.64

6 of 82 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. umeo (scan pp. 653-654; entry #1872). Root candidates: *umo-, *uhrmo-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ümeö (scan p. 1723; entry #3306).

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