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aemulus

emulous, rival

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Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 2 · 3.9/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Adversus Marcionem 17 · 2.05/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k

Densest 12 of 53 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. aemulus — de Vaan

aemulus 'emulous, rival' [adj, o/a] (Lucr.+) Derivatives: aemulus [m.] 'rival' (Ter.+), aemula (P1.+) 'female rival', aemulan 'to rival, emulate' (PL+). Pit *aimo-, PIE *h2ei-mo- 'imitation'. IE cognates: Hit. himma- 'imitation, substitute' (< *h2im-no-?). Diminutive *aimelo- of a noun *aimo- * imitation'. Maybe the Latin noun 'rival' is original with regard to the adj. Bibl: WH I: 17, EM 10f., IEW 10f., Neumann … — [de Vaan, s.v. aemulus, p. 40]

2. aemŭlus — Lewis & Short

aemŭlus, a, um, adj.cf. a(milla/omai and a(/ma, imitor, imago, Germ. ahmen (Eng. aim) in nachahmen = to imitate,

I striving after another earnestly, emulating, rivalling, emulous (cf. aemulatio and aemulor), in a good and bad sense; constr. with dat. or as subst. with gen.

I In a good sense, Att. ap. Auct. Her, 2, 26, 42: laudum, Cic. Phil. 2, 12: laudis, id. Cael. 14: aemulus atque imitator studiorum ac laborum, id. Marc. 1: Timagenis aemula lingua, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 15: itinerum Herculis, Liv. 21, 41.—With ne and subj.: milites aemuli, ne dissimiles viderentur, Aur. Vict Caes. 8, 3.—

II In a bad sense, both of one who, with a hostile feeling, strives after the possessions of another, and of one who, on account of his strong desire for a thing, envies him who possesses it; envious, jealous, grudging.— With gen.: Karthago aemula imperii Romani, Sall C. 10; Vell. 2, 1: Triton, Verg. A. 6, 173: quem remoto aemulo aequiorem sibi sperabat, Tac. A. 3, 8: Britannici, Suet. Ner. 6.—

III Subst., a rival = rivalis: mihi es aemula, you are my rival (i. e. you have the same desire as I), Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 20; Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 2, 1, 8; si non tamquam virum, at tamquam aemulum removisset, Cic. Verr 2, 5, 31: et si nulla subest aemula, languet amor, Ov A. A. 2, 436.—By meton. (eccl.), an enemy: videbis aemulum tuum in templo, Vulg. 1 Reg. 2, 32; affligebat eam aemula, ib. 1, 6.— In gen., mostly of things without life, vying with, rivalling a thing, i. e. comparable to, similar to, with dat., v. Rudd. II. p. 70 (poet., and in prose after the Aug. per.): tibia tubae Aemula, Hor. A. P. 203: labra rosis, Mart. 4, 42: Tuscis vina cadis, id. 13, 118; Plin. 9, 17, 29, § 63; id. 15, 18, 19, § 68 al.: Dictator Caesar summis oratoribus aemulus, i. e. aequiparandus, Tac. A. 13, 3.!*? Facta dictaque ejus aemulus for aemulans, Sall. Fragm. Hist. 3 (cf. celatum indagator for indagans in Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 15, unless celatum be here a gen.).

3. aemulus — Walde–Hofmann

aemulus, -a, -um ,nach-, wetteifernd, Nebenbuhler* (-/o- wie in assecha usw.) davon aemulor ,nach-, wetteifern, eifersüchtig sein* (beide seit Plaut): im Ablaut zu dmitor, -ätus sum, -dri „mache nach, ahme nach* (zu *imor wie sector: sequor; seit Liv. Andr.) ümägö, -inis f. „Bild, Abbild, Nachbildung* (seit Plaut., rom. nebst émáginátus). Weitere Ankriüpfungen unsicher; ganz hypothetisch Brugmann IF. 37, 155 ff. : … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. aemulus, p. 49]

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. aemulus (scan pp. 40-41; entry #12). Root candidates: *aimo-, *aimelo-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. aemulus (scan pp. 34-35; entry #214).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. aemulus (scan p. 49; entry #112).

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