The corpus record — Latin

vimen

vimen · n

a pliant twig

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
Georgicon 7 · 4.95/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 14 · 1.78/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
De Bello Civili 4 · 1.24/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vīmen — Lewis & Short

vīmen, ĭnis, n.vieo,

I a pliant twig, a switch, withe, osier, etc.

I Lit., Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 5; Caes. B. G. 2, 33; 7, 73; id. B. C. 1, 54; 2, 2; Verg. E. 2, 72; id. A. 6, 137; Tib. 2, 3, 15; Ov. M. 6, 345 al.—

II Transf.

A A set, slip; of willow, Col. 4, 30, 3.—

B The staff or wand of Mercury, Stat. Th. 2, 30.—

C Woven work, esp. a basket: quernum, Ov. M. 12, 436: breve Picenorum, Mart. 4, 88, 7.

2. vimen — Walde–Hofmann

vimen, -inis n. „Rute zum Flechten, Flechtwerk*: zu vieö (s. d. mit Abltg.) (Curtius 389, Vanicek 256); vgl. bes. ai. vdman- n. „Webstuhl*, nir. famh ,Kette* (Fick II* 270). Nicht — gr. iudrıov n. ,Gewand" (Ehrlich Unt. 147!), das vlm. von eiua aus *Fea-ua. abgeleitet ist. vimex s. vibices. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vimen, p. 1699]

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vimen (scan p. 1699; entry #3254).

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