The corpus record — Latin

acanthus

acanthus · f

a town of Macedonia

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

Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 1 · 0.79/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 1 · 0.76/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăcanthus — Lewis & Short

ăcanthus, i, f., = *)/akanqos,

I a town of Macedonia, now Erisso, Liv. 31, 45 fin.; Mel. 2, 2, 9; Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 38.

In the wild

acantho Vergil, Eclogues 4
acanthi Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.1.9
Acanthum Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 p32
Acanthi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p4
acanthos Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 398
Acantho Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.54

6 of 32 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.