The corpus record — Latin

anus

ring or link

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Cistellaria 9 · 17.21/10k
Aulularia 8 · 11.58/10k
Epodon 3 · 9.98/10k
Curculio 6 · 9.73/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Parentalia 2 · 7.7/10k
Heautontimorumenos 8 · 7.28/10k
Pro M. Scauro 2 · 6.73/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Metamorphoses 26 · 4.87/10k

Densest 12 of 75 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. anus — de Vaan

ring or link

2. ānus — Lewis & Short

the posteriors

3. ānus — Lewis & Short

an iron ring for the feet

4. ănus — Lewis & Short

an old woman

Attestations

6 of 297 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan pp. 59-60; entry #70 Review: Under source audit
OCR root-candidate values are withheld pending source verification, rights review, and scholarly review. No root, reconstruction, cognate, or historical relationship is asserted here.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 61; entry #666 Review: Under source audit

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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.