The corpus record — Latin

vepres

vepres · m

a thorn-bush

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Where it lives

Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 10 · 1.27/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vē^pres — Lewis & Short

vē^pres (vē^pris, vĕper), is, and more usu. in the vĕpres, ium (poet. veprum, m. (

plur.: Stat. S. 5, 2, 44),

I fem., Lucr. 4, 62; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, pp. 460, 678), a thorn-bush, brier-bush, bramble-bush (class.).

(a) Plur.: ARBORES, VITES, VEPRES, SENTES, S. C. ap. Front. Aquaed. 129: sepulcrum septum undique et vestitum vepribus et dumetis, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 64; cf. Cato, R. R. 2, 4; Lucr. 4, 62; Verg. G. 1, 271; 3, 444; id. A. 8, 645; * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 9.—Gen. veprum, Stat. S. 5, 2, 44; Suet. Tib. 60; Col. 11, 3, 3.—Prov.: inter vepres rosae nascuntur, Amm. 16, 7, 4.—

(b) Sing. nom. vepres, Prisc. p. 613 P.—Acc. hunc veprem, Col. 11, 3, 7; Plin. 13, 21, 37, § 116: veprem et spinam vorabit, Vulg. Isa. 9, 18; 27, 4.—Abl. vepre, Ov. M. 5, 628.

In the wild

vepribus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.9.p1
vepribus Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.22.28.5
vepres Vergil, Aeneid 8.645
vepribus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.19.p2
vepribus Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 11.128
vepres Cato, De agri cultura 2

6 of 44 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. ueprés (scan p. 746; entry #12457).

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