The corpus record — Latin

verbosus

verbosus · adj

full of words

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Pro L. Murena 2 · 1.9/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Tyranni Triginta 1 · 1.52/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Tristia 2 · 0.88/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

verbōsus — Lewis & Short

verbōsus, a, um, adj.verbum,

I full of words, wordy, prolix, verbose (rare but class.): verbosa simulatio prudentiae, Cic. Mur. 14, 30: T. Livium ut verbosum in historiā carpebat, Suet. Calig. 34; Cat. 98, 1.— Comp.: verbosior epistula, Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 6: expositio, Quint. 4, 2, 79.—Sup.: verbosissimos locos arcessere, Quint. 2, 4, 31.— Adv.: verbōsē, with many words, verbosely, Cic. Mur. 12, 26; Quint. 12, 8, 7.— Comp., Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 11; Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 5; Quint. 3, 11, 28; 4, 1, 43; 5, 12, 15.

In the wild

verbosius Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p7
verbosi Ovid, Tristia 3.12.18
verbosius Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.12.15
verbosiorem Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.3.6
verbosius Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.11.28
verbosa Historia Augusta, Tyranni Triginta 32

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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