LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

chordus1

chordus1

lateborn

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 98 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. chordus — Lewis & Short

chordus (cordus,

I v. the letter C), a, um, adj. a very ancient word relating to husbandry, of unknown etym., lateborn, or produced late in the season: dicuntur agni chordi, qui post tempus nascuntur, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 29; cf. Plin. 8, 47, 72, § 187; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 19; 2, 2, 5: faenum, the second crop of hay or after-math, Cato, R. R. 5 fin.; Col. 7, 3, 21; Plin. 18, 28, 67, § 262: olus, Col. 12, 13, 2: frumenta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 65, 10.

2. Chordus — Lewis & Short

Chordus, i, m.,

I a Roman cognomen; esp.: H. Cremutius Chordus, an historian of the times of Augustus and Tiberius, Quint. 1, 4, 25; Tac. A. 4, 34; Suet. Aug. 35; id. Calig. 16; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 2.

Where it came from

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

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