ăbēl — Lewis & Short
ăbēl, indecl. or ēlls, and ăbēlus, i, m.,
I Abel, son of Adam, Vulg. —Hence, Abelĭca Virtus, Mythogr. Vatic. 3, 6, 15.
The corpus record — Latin
Abel
Abel · m
Abel, son of Adam
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
- Adversus Judaeos Liber 7 · 6.24/10k
- De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
- Adversus Valentinianos 3 · 4.71/10k
- Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
- Epistulae. Selections. 7 · 1.51/10k
- Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
- Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
- Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Abel Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.22
- Abel Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 5
- Abel Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 5
- Abel Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 41.9
- Abel Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 41.8
- Abel Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 5
6 of 23 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.