The corpus record — Latin

ungula

ungula · f

a hoof

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Peristephanon Liber 7 · 3.98/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 19 · 2.41/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Metamorphoses 9 · 1.69/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Silvae 4 · 1.6/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k

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

What it meant

ungŭla — Lewis & Short

ungŭla, ae, f.unguis.

I Lit., a hoof, claw, talon; of a horse: totam quatit ungula terram, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 231 Vahl.); Verg. A. 8, 596; cf. Cic. N. D. 3, 5, 11.—Of a swine, Cato, R. R. 158, 1; Cels. 2, 17; 4, 14.—Of oxen: bisulca, Plin. 8, 21, 30, § 72.—Of the claws of hens, Plaut. Aul. 3. 4, 8.—Of vultures' and eagles' talons, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 63.—Prov.: toto corpore atque omnibus ungulis, i. e., as we say, with tooth and nail, with might and main, Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 56.—

II Transf.

A Poet., a horse: cum carceribus missos rapit ungula currus, Hor. S. 1, 1, 114; Mart. 12, 50, 5.—

B A claw, an instrument of torture (late Lat.), Cod. Just. 9, 18, 7 fin.; Prud. stef. 1, 44; Hier. Ep. 1, 3.—

III An aromatic spice, Vulg. Ecclus. 24, 21.

In the wild

ungula Vergil, Aeneid 12.339
ungula Vergil, Aeneid 12.533
ungula Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
ungulae Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
ungula Horace, Epodon 16.12
ungula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.19.p1

6 of 132 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. ungula (scan p. 769; entry #12838).

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