The corpus record — Latin

abstemius

abstemius · adj

abstaining from intoxicating drinks

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. abs-tēmĭus — Lewis & Short

abs-tēmĭus, a, um, adj.cf. temetum and temulentus,

I abstaining from intoxicating drinks, temperate, sober, a)/oinos.

I Lit.: sicca atque abstemia, Lucil. ap. Non. 68, 30: mulieres, Varr. ap. Non. ib.: vina fugit gaudetque meris abstemius undis, Ov. M. 15, 323 al.—Hence,

II In gen.: i. q. sobrius, temperate, abstinent, moderate: abstemius, herbis vivis et urticā, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 7.—Pleon.: mulieres vini abstemiae, Plin. 22, 24, 54, § 115.—

B In later Lat. = jejunus, who is yet fasting, has not breakfasted, Aus. Idyll. praef. 11.

2. abstémius — Walde–Hofmann

abstémius, -a, -um ,enthaltsam* (seit Lucil): auf Grund von abs *témó (vgl. Quint. 1, 7, 9), s. temetum, témulenius. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. abstémius, p. 37]

In the wild

abstemium Ausonius, Griphus Ternarii numeri pr.p1
abstemias Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.23.1
abstemius Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.7.9
abstemius Apuleius, Apologia 58
abstemii Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.21
abstemius Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.12

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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.