The corpus record — Latin

Aethiops

Aethiops · m

sunburnt

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Where it lives

de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Naturalis Historia 17 · 0.43/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Aethĭŏps — Lewis & Short

Aethĭŏps (i long, Aethīops, ŏpis, m., = *ai)qi/oy [the Gr. geographers derived this word from ai)/qw-w)/y, and applied it to all the

Sid. Carm. 11, 18),

I sunburnt, dark-complexioned races above Egypt].

I Subst., an Ethiopian, Plin. 2, 78, 80, § 189; Vulg. 2 Par. 12, 3; ib. Act. 8, 7.—

B Appel.

1 A black man, negro: derideat Aethiopem albus, Juv. 2, 23: Aethiopas videri, Plin. 32, 10, 52, § 141.—

2 A coarse, dull, awkward man, a blockhead: cum hoc homine an cum stipite Aethiope, Cic. Sen. 6; Juv. 6, 600; Flor. 4, 7.—

II Adj., Ethiopian; in the masc.: Aethiopes lacus, Ov. M. 15, 320: vir Aethiops, Vulg. Act. 8, 7.

Where it came from

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