1. āter — Lewis & Short
black
The corpus record — Latin
ater
ater · adj
black
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Epodon 5 · 16.63/10k
- Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
- Punica 97 · 12.71/10k
- Aeneid 70 · 11.05/10k
- Oedipus 6 · 10.11/10k
- Thyestes 6 · 9.53/10k
- Carmina 12 · 9.03/10k
- Agamemnon 5 · 8.99/10k
- Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 3 · 8.23/10k
- Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
- Hercules 6 · 7.88/10k
- De Cultu Feminarum 4 · 7.81/10k
Densest 12 of 101 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. āter — Lewis & Short
a mountain in the interior of Africa
3. Ater — Walde–Hofmann
áéra, -um „(tief)schwarz, dunkel, finster, unheilvoll* (seit Plaut, rom
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.
- scan p. 77; entry #982 Review: Under source audit
- scan pp. 107-108; entry #302 Review: Under source audit
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