The corpus record — Latin

ebrietas

ebrietas · f

drunkenness

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

Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 3 · 5.08/10k
De Providentia 2 · 4.89/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 12 · 2.59/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 25 · 2.1/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
De Ira 4 · 1.79/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ēbrĭĕtas — Lewis & Short

ēbrĭĕtas, ātis, f.ebrius,

I drunkenness, ebriety (cf.: ebriositas, crapula), * Cic. Tusc. 4, 12; Sen. Ep. 83, 16 sq.; Quint. 1, 11, 2: Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 142: in proelia trudit inermem, * Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16; Ov. A. A. 1, 597: tumultuosa, Vulg. Prov. 20, 1 al.—Plur., carouses, Sen. Ep. 24, 16; Col. 1 praef. § 16. —

II Transf., of things: nimio liquore abundat rumpitque se pomi ipsius ebrietas, i. e. excess of juice, Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 45.

In the wild

ebrietas Tertullian, De Scorpiace 12
ebrietatis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 10.6
ebrietatem Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 30
ebrietas Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 10.83.25
ebrietatem Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.6.5
ebrietate Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 10.10

6 of 119 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.