The corpus record — Latin

vascus

vascus · adj

tibia, a kind of flute, Sol. 5; Serv. Verg. A. 11, 737

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Where it lives

Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k

What it meant

1. vascus — Lewis & Short

vascus, a, um, adj.perh. incorrectly for vastus:

I tibia, a kind of flute, Sol. 5; Serv. Verg. A. 11, 737.

2. vascus — Walde–Hofmann

vascus, -a, -um „quer, schief* (tibia; Solin 5, 19, Serv. Aen. 11, 737; vgl. vasca [vacca] : uerermtixög abAdc; s. O. Jahn Sächs. Sb. 1851, 169f£, vgl. rom. *vascäre): zu vatuus. Gdf. *oat-scos. Ein anderes Wort ist vaseum : inänem, nügätörium Cl. VII 394, von Havet MSL. 4,87 mit vänus verbunden. vaspix — vätds. 737 — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vascus, p. 1644]

In the wild

Vasco Silius Italicus, Punica 5.197
Vasco Silius Italicus, Punica 10.15
Vasco Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 2.537
Vasco Silius Italicus, Punica 3.358
Vasco Silius Italicus, Punica 9.232

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uascus (scan p. 738; entry #12337).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vascus (scan pp. 1644-1645; entry #3154).

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