The corpus record — Latin

controversia

dispute, quaneP (PL+), controversy [adv.]

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
De Inventione 49 · 14.8/10k
Pro A. Caecina 13 · 12.52/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 10 · 11.57/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 6 · 6.45/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Topica 4 · 5.84/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 5 · 5.11/10k
Institutio Oratoria 86 · 5/10k
De Oratore 29 · 4.82/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 2 · 4.2/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k

Densest 12 of 72 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. controversia — de Vaan

dispute, quaneP (PL+), controversy [adv.]

2. contrōversĭa — Lewis & Short

a turning against

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 681; entry #1956 Review: Under source audit

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