The corpus record — Latin

Baro

Baro · m

a simpleton

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

Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

bāro — Lewis & Short

bāro, ōnis m.kindr with bardus, q. v.; cf. also Varro, varo,

I a simpleton, blockhead, dunce (four times in Cicero, elsewhere rare): haec cum loqueris, nos barones stupemus, tu videlicet tecum ipse rides, Cic. Fin. 2, 23, 76; so id. Div. 2, 70, 144; id. Fam. 9, 26, 3; id. Att. 5, 11, 6; Pers. 5, 138; Petr. 53, 11; 63, 7.

In the wild

Baro Petronius, Satyricon 53
Baro Petronius, Satyricon 63
baro Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 9.26.3
baro Petronius, Satyricon 63
baro Persius, Saturae 5.138
Baro Cicero, De Divinatione 2.144

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.