The corpus record — Latin

David

David · m

the second king of the Jews, and principal author of the Book of Psalms

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

Where it lives

De Carne Christi 21 · 22.09/10k
Dittochaeon 2 · 16.34/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 16 · 14.26/10k
Adversus Marcionem 73 · 8.81/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
De Scorpiace 5 · 6.28/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
De Corona 2 · 4.11/10k
Apotheosis 3 · 4.05/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 2 · 3.43/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 12 · 2.74/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Dāvīd — Lewis & Short

Dāvīd, m.indecl., or vīdis (

I gen. David, Aus. Ephem. 3, 84: Davidis, Juvenc. 1, 151; acc. -vīda, Juvenc. 2, 577: David, Vulg. 2 Reg. 23, 16), the second king of the Jews, and principal author of the Book of Psalms, Tert. adv. Jud. 9 et 12; Vulg. Ruth 4, 17 et saep.—Hence, Dāvīdĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to David: urbs, Sedul. Carm. 4, 42: lyra, Cassiod. Var. 2, 20.

In the wild

David Tertullian, De idolatria 4
David Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 13
David Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 52.10
David Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.20
Dauid Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.17.p2
David Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.36

6 of 162 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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.