The corpus record — Latin

velamentum

velamentum · n

a cover

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Where it lives

De Corona 2 · 4.11/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vēlāmentum — Lewis & Short

vēlāmentum, i, n.id.,

I a cover, covering.

I Lit

A Infantis, Cels. 7, 29 fin.: estque id aliquanto melius velamentum cerebro quam caro, id. 8, 4; cf. id. 7, 18.— *

B A veil, curtain, = velum, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 15, 2.—

C Velamenta, olive-branches wound about with woollen fillets, or rods wound about in like manner, which suppliants bore before them: velamenta manu praetendens supplice, Ov. M. 11, 279: ramos oleae ac velamenta alia supplicum porrigentes orare, ut reciperent sese, Liv. 24, 30, 14 Weissenb. ad loc.; 25, 25, 6; 30, 36, 5; 36, 20, 1; cf. id. 29, 16, 6. velamenta et infulas praeferentes, Tac. H. 1, 66; v. velo, I. fin.—

II Trop., a cover, concealment, screen: quaerentes libidinibus suis patrocinium aliquid seu velamentum, Sen. Vit. Beat. 12, 4: pudoris, Lampr. Elag. 11: ami citiae, pretence, Amm. 19, 11, 4.

In the wild

velamenta Tacitus, Historiae 3.31
velamento Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.17
velamentum Tertullian, Apologeticum 36.2
velamenta Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 125.6
velamentum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.11
uelamento Apuleius, Apologia 33

6 of 55 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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