The corpus record — Latin

abundantia

abundantia · f

abundance

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 2 · 4.65/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 3.13/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 2 · 2.97/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 2 · 2.14/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Architectura 11 · 1.91/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 12 · 1.52/10k
De Lege Agraria 2 · 1.45/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăbundantĭa — Lewis & Short

ăbundantĭa, ae, f.abundo,

I abundance, plenty, fulness, richness (syn. copia).

I In the Cic. and Aug. per. usu. with a gen. to define it more exactly: omnium rerum abundantia et copia, Cic. Lael. 23; id. Agr. 2, 97: otii, id. Fam. 7, 1: amoris, id. ib. 1, 9, 1 al.—

II Absol., pecuniary wealth, riches, Cic. Cat. 2, 10; Tac. Agr. 6; id. H. 2, 94: laborare abundantiā, from overloading the stomach, Suet. Claud. 44 (cf. id. ib. 40).—Fig., of speech: multa ex juvenili abundantiā coërcuisse, Quint. 12, 1, 20.

In the wild

abundantia Tacitus, Annales 4.p62
abundantiae Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.5.6
abundantia Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.65
abundantiam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.15.8
abundantia Cicero, In L. Catilinam 2.10
abundantia Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.2.1

6 of 108 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.