The corpus record — Latin

vitrum

glass; the plant *woad

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Epigrammata 7 · 1.24/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 40 · 1.01/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vitrum — de Vaan

vitrum 'glass; the plant *woad' (isatis tinctoria\ from whose leaves blue dye was produced' [n. o] (Lucr.-f-) vivo Derivatives: vitreus 'resembling glass; made of glass' (VarrcH-). Pit *wedro- 'glass'. PIE *ued-ro- 4 water-like\ IE cognates: see s.v. undo. Szemerenyi 1989: 24f, derives uitrum from *ued-ro- on the basis of a semantic parallel in Middle Iranian, where 'glass' is derived from the word for 'water': … — [de Vaan, s.v. vitrum, p. 698]

2. vī^trum — Lewis & Short

vī^trum, i, n.root in video, to see, as transparent; cf. Plin. 36, 26, 65, § 191,

I glass.

I Lit., Plin. 36, 26, 65, § 189; Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 40; Sen. Q. N. 1, 6, 5; Quint. 2, 21, 9; Prop. 4 (5), 8, 37. O fons Bandu siae, splendidior vitro, Hor. C. 3, 13, 1; 1, 18, 16: Bassa, bibis vitro, Mart. 1, 38, 2; Ov. H. 15, 157.—

II Woad, a plant used for dyeing blue: Isatis tinctoria, Linn.; Vitr. 7, 14; Caes. B. G. 5, 14; Mel. 3, 6, 5; Plin. 35, 6, 27, § 46; 37, 8, 37, § 117.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. vitrum (scan pp. 698-699; entry #2007). Root candidates: *wedro-, *wet-, *ueteIo-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uitrum (scan p. 766; entry #12781).

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