The corpus record — Latin

cetus

cetus · m

any large sea-animal

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

Where it lives

De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cētus — Lewis & Short

cētus, i, m. (acc. to the Gr. cētŏs, n., cētē = kh/th, kh=tos,

Plin. 32, 1, 4, § 10; and hence common in the plur.Verg. A. 5, 822; Plin. 9, 24, 40, § 78; 9, 50, 74, § 157; Sil. 7, 476), =

I any large sea-animal, a seamonster; particularly a species of whale, a shark, dog-fish, seal, dolphin, etc., Plin. l. l.; Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 5; id. Capt. 4, 2, 72; Cels. 2, 18.—

II As a constellation, the Whale, Vitr. 9, 7; Manil. 1, 612.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cétus (scan p. 141; entry #2087).

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