The corpus record — Latin

discrimen

separating line, distinction

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
De Otio 2 · 10.2/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Historiae 37 · 7.19/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
Tiberius 5 · 5.5/10k
Res Gestae 70 · 5.49/10k

Densest 12 of 120 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. discrimen — de Vaan

separating line, distinction

2. discrīmen — Lewis & Short

that which separates

Attestations

discrimen Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.2.11
discrimine Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.2.13
discriminis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.9.1
discrimen Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.9.7
discrimen Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.10.4
discrimine Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.10.3

6 of 632 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 124; entry #256 Review: Under source audit
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