The corpus record — Latin

Cauterium

Cauterium · n

An instrument used for branding

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

Where it lives

De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

cautērĭum — Lewis & Short

cautērĭum, ii, n., = kauth/sion.

I An instrument used for branding, a branding-iron, Veg. 1, 14, 3; 1, 1, 28; in medicine, a cautery, Plin. 25, 8, 39, § 80; 22, 23, 49, § 102; Scrib. Comp. 240.—

II An instrument used in encaustic painting for burning in the wax, Dig. 33, 7, 17; Tert. adv. Herm. 1.

In the wild

cauterio Tertullian, De Scorpiace 5
cauterio Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 52.6
cauterio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.35.p43
Cauterium Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 52.6
cauterio Tertullian, De Paenitentia 10
cauterio Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 117.2

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.