The corpus record — Latin

benevolens

benevolens · adj

wishing well

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Where it lives

Timoleon 2 · 24.15/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 9 · 9.64/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 2 · 7.57/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Trinummus 5 · 5.08/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 46 · 3.95/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 2 · 3.9/10k
Pro M. Marcello 1 · 3.61/10k
Epidicus 2 · 3.07/10k
De Officiis 10 · 2.95/10k

Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

bĕnĕ-vŏlens — Lewis & Short

bĕnĕ-vŏlens (in MSS. also bĕnĭvŏ-lens), entis, adj.bene-volo,

I wishing well, benevolent, favorable, propitious, kind, obliging (ante-class. for the class. benevolus; in Plaut. very freq.), Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 7 and 8: ero benevolens, id. Truc. 2, 2, 61; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 24: amicus multum benevolens, id. Merc. 5, 2, 46: benevolentes inter se, id. Cist. 1, 1, 25: ite cum dis benevolentibus, id. Mil. 4, 8, 41: benevolentem cum benevolente perire, id. Ep. 1, 1, 72: sodalis, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 71 al.—Comp., sup., and adv., v. benevolus.—Subst.: bĕnĕvŏlens, ntis, comm., a well-wisher, friend, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 30: alicui amicus et benevolens, id. Most. 1, 3, 38; id. Pers. 4, 4, 98; id. Trin. 5, 2, 24; 5, 2, 53: sua, id. Cist. 2, 3, 42 al.: illi benivolens, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 47 Fleck.

In the wild

benevolens Plautus, Truculentus 2.2
benevolentia Cicero, De Oratore 2.216.p1
benevolentia Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.29.8
benevolentiaque Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.20
beniuolentissimi Apuleius, Florida 16.p4
beniuolentia Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.7.4

6 of 176 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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