The corpus record — Latin

absonus

absonus · adj

Deviating from the right tone

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 1 · 0.57/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Noctes Atticae 4 · 0.36/10k
De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

ab-sŏnus — Lewis & Short

ab-sŏnus, a, um, adj.

I Deviating from the right tone, discordant, dissonant, inharmonious: sunt quidam ita voce absoni, ut ... in oratorum numerum venire non possint, Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115: vox absona atque absurda, id. ib. 3, 11, 41.— Hence,

II In gen., not harmonizing with a thing, not accordant with, unsuitable, incongruous; constr. with ab or ( = alienus) with dat. or absol.: nec absoni a voce motus erant, Liv. 7, 2: nihil absonum fidei divinae originis fuit, id. 1, 15: fortunis absona dicta, Hor. A. P. 112.—Absol.: nihil absonum, nihil agreste, Quint. 6, 3, 107; cf. id. 12, 10, 32.—Adv.: absŏnē, discordantly, incongruously, Gell. 15, 25; App. Mag. p. 277.

In the wild

absoni Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p2
absonum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.21.12
absonum Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p25
absona Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 112
absone Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.25.1
absonam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.30

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.