The corpus record — Latin

Baetis

Baetis · m

a river in Southern Spain

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 2 · 3.3/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 3 · 2.88/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 4 · 2.39/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Punica 7 · 0.92/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Baetis — Lewis & Short

Baetis (Bĕtis, is, m. (

Paul. Nol. Carm. ad Aus. 10, 236), acc. Baetin, Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 12 (al. Baetim); Mart. 9, 62, 2; Claud. Fesc. 12, 31; Mall. Theod. 285; Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 238:

I BAETEM, Inscr. Grut. 153, 4; abl. Baete, Liv. 28, 22, 1: Baeti (al. Baete), Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 13; Amm. 23, 6, 21), = *bai=tis, a river in Southern Spain, called by the inhabitants Certis, now Guadalquivir, Liv. 28, 16, 2; Mel. 3, 1, 5; Plin. 3, 1, 3, §§ 7 and 13.—

II Deriv.: Baetĭcus, a, um, adj., on or belonging to the Bœtis: provincia, Tac. H. 1, 53: regiones, Col. 1, pr. 20: vocabulum, id. 5, 1, 5: oves, id. 7, 2, 4: lana, Mart. 12, 65, 4; Juv. 12, 40.—

B Subst.: Baetĭca, ae, f., = *baitikh/, the province of Bœtica, lying on the Bœtis, in Southern Spain, distinguished for its excellent wool, now Andalusia and a part of Granada, Mel. 2, 6, 3; 2, 4, 7; 3, 1, 6; 3, 6, 1; Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 7; 11, 37, 76, § 196; Tac. H. 1, 78 al.—Hence,

2 Adj.: Baetica lana, Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 191: lacernae, made of the Bœtican wool, Mart. 14, 133.—Baetĭci, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Bœtica, Plin. Ep. 1, 7.

In the wild

Baetis Martial, Epigrammata 12.98.1
Baetim Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 2.238
Baetis Silius Italicus, Punica 16.196
Baetes Silius Italicus, Punica 3.405
Baetis Lucan, Pharsalia 2.589
Betis Ausonius, Epistularum 31.236

6 of 46 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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.