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deorsum

per synaeresin

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Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 4 · 6.86/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Rerum Natura 10 · 2.05/10k
Adelphi 2 · 2.02/10k
De Medicina 17 · 1.66/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. dĕorsum — Lewis & Short

dĕorsum (dissyll.

I per synaeresin, Lucr. 1, 362; 2, 205 al.; cf., on the contrary, trisyll., id. 2, 202.—Also deorsus, like prorsus, quorsus, rursus, adversus, Cic. N. D. 1, 25, 69; Ap. M. 8, p. 207, 18; id. ib. 9, p. 236, 40; id. de Deo Socr. p. 47, 35; id. Flor. no. 15), adv. contr. from devorsum, turned down, downwards, ka/tw, opp. to sursum (class.).

I To indicate motion: ego me deorsum duco de arbore, Plaut. Aul. 4, 8, 8: deorsum cuncta feruntur (opp. flammae expressae sursum), Lucr. 2, 202; 205; 6, 335; Cic. N. D. 1, 25, 69; id. Fin. 1, 6, 18; Cels. 5, 26, 31: reliqui (gestus) ante nos et dextra laevaque et sursum et deorsum aliquid ostendunt, Quint. 11, 3, 105: deorsum cadit, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89; cf.: ut isto gladio deorsus ad meum Tlepolemum viam quaeram, i. e. in orcum, Ap. M. 8, p. 207, 18.—

b Pleonast. with versus (versum): ubi deorsum versus ibit, Cato R. R. 156, 4; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 5; Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1: ubi eo veneris, clivos deorsum vorsum est, right down before you, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35.—

c With sursum, up and down, a)/nw ka/tw: ne sursum deorsum cursites, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 47; cf.: naturis sursum deorsum, ultro citro commeantibus, Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84: si sanguis sursum deorsumve erupit, Cels. 2, 8: cum terra quatitur et sursum ac deorsum movetur, Sen. Q. N. 6, 21.—

II To indicate position, locality, down, below: qui colunt deorsum, magis aestate laborant: qui sursum, magis hieme ... nec non sursum quam deorsum tardius seruntur ac metuntur, Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3; Plaut. Aul. 2, 7, 5; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 34 sq.; Vulg. Deut. 4, 39 al.—Cf. on this art. Hand, Turs. II. p. 280- 282.

2. deorsum — Walde–Hofmann

deorsum (-us seit Cic., IF. 44, 73°) „nach unten gewendet, abwärts: unterhalb“ (seit Plaut., rom,; Nebenformen deösum [-oss-?] seit Cato, dorsum Inschr., vlt. und rom. iösum, iüsum [& nach su(r)sum, IA. 18, 79, Wartburg III 44); Abltg. deorsänus, iüsänus Orib., rom., Thomas Mél, Havet 514 £): *dz-uorsom, vgl. seorsum (Solmsen Stud. 58f, KZ. 44, 2082, Leumann-Stolz? 115. 162 usw.); vgl. abundantes deorsum versus (wie … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. deorsum, p. 374]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. deorsum (scan p. 194; entry #3011).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. deorsum (scan p. 374; entry #908).

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