The corpus record — Latin

velamen

velamen · n

a cover

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Virginibus Velandis 11 · 19.73/10k
De Corona 4 · 8.22/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Fasti 7 · 2.24/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Metamorphoses 13 · 1.67/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vēlāmen — Lewis & Short

vēlāmen, ĭnis, n.velo,

I a cover, covering, clothing, robe, garment, veil (poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Verg. A. 1, 649; 6, 221; Ov. M. 6, 566; id. F. 4, 147; 6, 579; id. A. A. 3, 267; Juv. 3, 178; Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 11, 2; Tac. G. 17.

In the wild

velamine Ovid, Amores 1.5.17
velamine Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.1056
velamine Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.578
velamen Tertullian, De Corona 4
uelamine Silius Italicus, Punica 3.236
velamine Statius, Thebais 1.593

6 of 105 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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