The corpus record — Latin

Christus

Christus · m

Christ

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

Where it lives

Epilogus 2 · 148.15/10k
Dittochaeon 17 · 138.89/10k
De Carne Christi 132 · 138.87/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 145 · 129.21/10k
Apotheosis 80 · 108.01/10k
Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 2 · 103.09/10k
Adversus Marcionem 844 · 101.88/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 58 · 99.45/10k
Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 2 · 94.79/10k
Peristephanon Liber 120 · 68.3/10k
De Monogamia 45 · 64.43/10k
Adversus Praxean 92 · 62.23/10k

Densest 12 of 51 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Christus — Lewis & Short

Christus, i, m., = *xristo/s (the Anointed, Heb. ; cf.

Lact. 4, 7, 7),

I Christ, Tac. A. 15, 44 Rupert. ad loc.; Plin. Ep. 10, 97; and in the Church fathers very freq.

In the wild

Christum Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.642
Christi Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.1
Christus Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.1
Christi Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 117.9
Christi Prudentius, Cathemerina 1.30
Christo Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.15

6 of 2,658 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Christus (scan p. 142; entry #2111).

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.