The corpus record — Latin

Diocletianus

Diocletianus · m

a Roman emperor from

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

Where it lives

Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 20 · 75.3/10k
Divus Aurelianus 8 · 10.24/10k
Probus 3 · 7.28/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Dĭoclētĭānus — Lewis & Short

Dĭoclētĭānus, i, m., C. Aurelius Valerius,

I a Roman emperor from 284-305 A. D., Aurel. Vict. Caes. 38; id. Epit. 39; Eutrop. 9, 13 sq.; before his accession to the throne named Diocles, Aur. Vict. Ep. 39.

In the wild

Diocletianus Historia Augusta, Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 14
Diocletiano Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae val1.1.2
Diocletianum Historia Augusta, Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 18
Diocletiane Historia Augusta, Helius 1
Diocletianum Historia Augusta, Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 18
Diocletiano Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.10

6 of 57 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.