The corpus record — Latin

vapor

vapour, steam

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 32 · 6.57/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k
Phaedra 3 · 4.22/10k
Cathemerina 3 · 4.08/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Architectura 16 · 2.77/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
De Medicina 16 · 1.56/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vapor — de Vaan

vapor 'vapour, steam' [m. r] (Pac.+; nom.sg. vapos Ace,) Derivatives: vaporare 'to cover with a vapour, be hot' (Lucr.+). , Pit *kwap-os * vapour'. w PIE *k uh2ep-s- * smoke'. IE cognates: Gr. καπνός 'smoke' [m.] < *κραπνός, από ... έκάπυσσεν 'breathed forth', καπύσσων 'breathing out', κάπυς 'breath'; Lith. kvapas 'smoke' < *kwh2iiop-o-> Ru. hbpot1 'soot, (dial) smoke, dust, hoarfrost', Ukr. kapit 'dust (in the … — [de Vaan, s.v. vapor, p. 668]

2. văpor — Lewis & Short

văpor (ante-class. form văpos, Naev. ap. ōris, m.Sanscr. kapis, incense; Gr. kapu/w, kapno/s, smoke; cf. vappa,

Non. 487, 10; Lucr. 6, 952; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 13),

I steam, exhalation, vapor (syn. exhalatio).

I In gen.: aquarum vapores, qui a sole ex agris tepefactis et ex aquis excitantur, Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118: aquarum quasi vapor quidam aër habendus est, id. ib. 2, 10, 27; Lucr. 6, 271: aquae calidae, Cels. 7, 7, 10; Scrib. Comp. 20: terrenus vapor siccus est et fumo similis, qui ventos, tonitrua et fulmina facit: aquarum halitus umidus est et imbres et nives creat, Sen. Q. N. 2, 12, 4: nocturnos formidare vapores, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 93: volat vapor ater ad auras. smoke, Verg. A. 7, 466; Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 40; Stat. Th. 10, 110; Sen. Herc. Fur. 911.—

II In partic., a warm exhalation, warmth, heat, etc.

A Lit.: (terra semen) tepefactum vapore et compressu suo diffundit, Cic. Sen. 15, 51: aestifer ignis uti lumen jacit atque vaporem, Lucr. 1, 663: solis, id. 1, 1032; 2, 150; 4, 185; 4, 201; 6, 236; Curt. 7, 5, 3; of the heat of the thunderbolt: inusta vaporis signa, Lucr. 6, 220: finditque vaporibus arva (Phoebus), Ov. M. 3, 152: siderum, Hor. Epod. 3, 15: lentusque carinas Est vapor, Verg. A. 5, 683; cf. id. ib. 698: locus torridus et vaporis plenus, Liv. 5, 48, 1: vapore foveri, Cels. 7, 7, 2; 7, 7, 10; 7, 9 fin.; 8, 4; 8, 7; Col. 1, 4, 10; 7, 3, 8 al.—

B Trop., warmth, ardor of love: pectus insanum vapor amorque torret, Sen. Hippol. 640.

3. vapor — Walde–Hofmann

vapor (al vapös Non. p. 487), -öris m. „Dampf, Dunst; Hitze, Gluthauch; Erregung (seit Acc., Pacuv., Varro, Cic., rom.), vapórus, -a, -um Nemes, ecl. 3, 63, vapörö, -äre seit Lucr., abs. bzw. trs. und intr, „sende Dünste aus* bzw, ,brenne* (-átus, -a, -wm Sidon., -àte Amm.) vapörärium, -i n. Cie, capórütio f. seit Sen., vapörätus, -üs m. Fulg., väpöreus, -a, -um seit Tert, vapörälis, -e seit Aug., ebenso -Aliter, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vapor, p. 1640]

In the wild

vapor Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.283
vapor Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.383
vapor Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.145
vapore Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.10.p6
vapore Tacitus, Historiae 5.7
vapor Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.2.4

6 of 212 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. vapor (scan p. 668; entry #1919). Root candidates: *kwh2uep-, *kwuap-, *wap-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vapor (scan pp. 1640-1641; entry #3148). Root candidates: *uép-, *usp-, *webh-.

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