The corpus record — Latin

diabolus

diabolus · m

a devil

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Where it lives

De Fuga in Persecutione 24 · 45.1/10k
De Spectaculis 21 · 33/10k
De Patientia 10 · 22.08/10k
De idolatria 12 · 17.39/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 8 · 15.62/10k
De Corona 7 · 14.39/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 5 · 12.8/10k
Ad Uxorem 5 · 12.03/10k
De Paenitentia 4 · 9.82/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 4 · 6.77/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
De Oratione 3 · 6.68/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dĭăbŏlus — Lewis & Short

dĭăbŏlus, i, m., = dia/bolos,

I a devil, Tert. Anim. 35; Vulg. 3 Reg. 21, 13.—Esp., the devil, Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 10; Vulg. 1 Johan. 3, 8 al. et saep. With long a, in Paul. Nol. 26, 528.

In the wild

diabolum Tertullian, De Anima 35
diabolo Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione 1
diaboli Tertullian, De Spectaculis 24.1
diabolus Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 125.11
diabolum Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum 1.8
diabolus Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.38

6 of 244 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. diabolus (scan p. 195; entry #3043).

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