The corpus record — Latin

abyssus

abyssus · f

A bottomless pit

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Where it lives

Adversus Hermogenem 20 · 18.01/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Adversus Praxean 1 · 0.68/10k
Adversus Marcionem 4 · 0.48/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

ăbyssus — Lewis & Short

ăbyssus, i, f., = a)/bussos (sc. li/mnh).

1 A bottomless pit, an abyss, Isid. Orig. 13, 20.—

2 The sea, Vulg. Gen. 1, 2.—

3 The place of the dead, Orcus, Hades, Vulg. Rom. 10, 7.—

4 Tartarus, hell, where the wicked are confined, Vulg. Luc. 8, 31; ib. Apoc. 9, 1. So in eccl. Lat.

In the wild

abyssum Tertullian, Adversus Hermogenem 32
abyssi Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.20
abyssum Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 25
abyssis Tertullian, De Oratione 17
abyssus Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.39
abyssus Tertullian, Adversus Hermogenem 31

6 of 34 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. abyssus (scan p. 28; entry #103).

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