The corpus record — Latin

cervus

stag, deer

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Eclogarum Liber 3 · 10.96/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Eclogues 4 · 8.81/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 5 · 4.56/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 3 · 3.96/10k
De Re Coquinaria 6 · 3.83/10k
Carmina 5 · 3.76/10k
Georgicon 5 · 3.53/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k

Densest 12 of 60 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cervus — de Vaan

cervus 'stag, deer' [m. ο] (Ρ1.+) Derivatives: cerva 'hind, doe' (PL+), cervinus 'of a deer' (Varro+). Pit. *ker(a)wo- 'homed animal, stag'. PIE *ker(h2)-uo- 'having horns*. IE cognates: W. carw, Bret, karo 'stag, deer' < *kr(h2)uo-; CLuw. zoruoniQa)- [adj/J Of a horn' < *]cr-uen-, Hit. ^karauar / — [de Vaan, s.v. cervus, p. 125]

2. cervus — Lewis & Short

cervus (old orthogr. cervŏs; cf. i, m.kindr. with cornu and carina,

Quint. 1, 7, 26),

I a stag, a deer, Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 112 sq.: alipedes, Lucr. 6, 765: fugax, Hor. C. 4, 6, 34; Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 11: fugientes, Hor. C. 3, 12, 11: pavidi, Ov. F. 5, 173: surgentem in cornua, Verg. A. 10, 725 al.—As a type of fleetness: vincere cervum cursu, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 27.—

II Transf. (from resemblance to the horns of a stag; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 117 Müll.): cervi, forked stakes. *

A As supports of the vine, Tert. Anim. 19.— More freq.,

B In the art of war, as a protection against the enemy, a chevaux-defrise, Caes. B. G. 7, 72; Liv. 44, 11, 4; Tib. 4, 1, 84; Sil. 10, 414; Serv. ad Verg. E. 2, 29.

3. cervus — Walde–Hofmann

cervus, -j m. „Hirsch“, cerva (spät -ío, Leumann-Stolz® 204), -ae f. „Hirschkuh* (seit Plaut., rom., ebenso -inus seit Varro, „isabellfarben“ seit Pallad., M. L. Wagner Gl. 8, 235; dazu cervisca „eine Birnensorte^ Maer., s. Thes): als „Horntier“ (Paul. Fest. 54 usw.) aus *Éerowos = gr. «epaóc (EXaqoc usw.) „gehörnt“, ablaut. kymr. carw, korn. earow, bret. karo „Hirsch“ (*kPyo-, *k,rouo-, Pedersen 152; dazu; der … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cervus, p. 240]

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. cervus (scan p. 125; entry #260).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cervus (scan p. 240; entry #627). Root candidates: *kPyo-, *herut-, *ker-.

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