The corpus record — Latin

uncinus

uncinus · m

a hook

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

uncīnus — Lewis & Short

uncīnus, i, m.1. uncus,

I a hook, barb (late Lat. for 1. uncus), App. M. 3, p. 135, 39; Pall. Mart. 10, 29; Vnlg. Exod. 28, 13. —As adj.: hamus, barbed, Paul. Nol. Carm. 20, 270.

In the wild

uncinis Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.10.3
uncino Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.15.p1

Where it came from

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