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Badius

Badius

brown, chestnut coloured (of horses)

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

Where it lives

  • Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 8 · 5.52/10k
  • Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
  • Ab urbe condita 8 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

1. badius — de Vaan

badius 'brown, chestnut coloured (of horses)' [adj, o/a] (Varro-l·; rare) Pit. *bopjo-. The presence of di in badius suggests an original voiced aspirate (as in medius), since PIE *di would have yielded ii (as in peior). The Latin word can be connected with Olr. buide 'yellow' < PCI. *bodrio-. The limited distribution and initial *b- render PIE origin unlikely» If we assume a preform *bac?ios9 the Irish word must … — [de Vaan, s.v. badius, p. 81]

2. bădĭus — Lewis & Short

bădĭus, a, um, adj.,

I brown, chestnutcolored (rare; only of horses), Varr. ap. Non. p. 80, 2; Pal. Mart. 13, 4; Grat. Cyn. 536.

3. badius — Walde–Hofmann

badius, -a, -um ,kastanienbraun* (besonders von Pferden; seit Varro, rom.): air. buide ,gelb*, vi. gall. Bodio-casses. Walde-P. lI 105. Vgl. basus. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. badius, p. 124]

In the wild

6 of 18 attestations shown.

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. badius (scan pp. 81-82; entry #134). Root candidates: *bopjo-, *bodrio-.
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. badius (scan p. 88; entry #1132).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. badius (scan p. 124; entry #346).

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.