1. Cȳ^prus — Lewis & Short
an island in the Mediterranean Sea, on the coast of Asia Minor, renowned for its fruitfulness, its rich mines…
The corpus record — Latin
Cyprus1
Cyprus1 · f
an island in the Mediterranean Sea, on the coast of Asia Minor, renowned for its fruitfulness, its rich mines…
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Distribution
- Chabrias 2 · 40.9/10k
- Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
- Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
- Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
- In Eutropium 4 · 5.57/10k
- Adelphi 4 · 4.04/10k
- Mercator 3 · 3.5/10k
- Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
- Carmina 4 · 3.01/10k
- Naturalis Historia 70 · 1.77/10k
- De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k
- De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. cȳ^prus — Lewis & Short
a tree growing in Cyprus and Egypt; the flower of which yielded the
3. cȳ^prus — Lewis & Short
a Sabine word, = bonus, v. 1. Cyprius
Attestations
- Cyprum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.14
- Cyprus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.14
- Cypro Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae val1.6.35
- Cyprum Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.102.5
- Cypri Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.106.1
- cyprus Celsus, De Medicina 5.24.p3
6 of 151 attestations shown.
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