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caecitas

blindness

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Where it lives

De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 13 · 2.29/10k
Peristephanon Liber 4 · 2.28/10k
De Anima 4 · 1.68/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k
Apologeticum 2 · 1/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. caecitas — de Vaan

caecitas 'blindness' (Cic.+), caeculus 'small (and) blind' (Lab.+), caecufire 'to be blind, see badly' (Varro+), caecultare 'to be purblind, see badly' (PL, Paul, ex J\). Pit *kaiko-. PIE *keh2i-ko- / *kh2ei-ko- 'one-eyed'. IE cognates: Olr. caech 'one-eyed', coeg 'empty', W. coeg-dall, OCo. cuic 'one-eyed' < PCI. *kaiko-, Go. haihs 'id' < PGm. *χαΐχα~. Skt. kekara- is probably not related (Schrijver 1991: 266), nor … — [de Vaan, s.v. caecitas, p. 93]

2. caecĭtas — Lewis & Short

caecĭtas, ātis, f.caecus,

I blindness.

I Lit. (rare but in good prose), Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113; 5, 38, 111; id. Fin. 5, 28, 84; Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 149; 12, 8, 18, § 34.—

II Trop.: furorem autem esse rati sunt mentis ad omnia caecitatem, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11: in furore animi et caecitate, id. Dom. 50, 129: mentis, id. ib. 40, 105; cf.: an tibi luminis obesset caecitas plus quam libidinis, id. Har. Resp. 18, 38.

In the wild

caecitate Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.4
caecitate Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.12.p2
caecitate Minucius Felix, Octavius 3.1
caecitatis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.6.p1
caecitate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p15
caecitatem Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.11

6 of 70 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. caecitas (scan p. 93; entry #168). Root candidates: *kaiko-, *kh2i-.

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