The corpus record — Latin

ebriosus

ebriosus · adj

given to drinking

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

Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 5 · 1.08/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Noctes Atticae 4 · 0.36/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3 · 0.25/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ēbrĭōsus — Lewis & Short

ēbrĭōsus, a, um, adj.ebrius,

I given to drinking, addicted to drunkenness.

I Prop.: hunc scribunt ebriosum esse, Cic. Fat. 5, 10: plurimum interesse inter ebrium et ebriosum, Sen. Ep. 83, 11.—As subst.: ēbrĭōsus, i, m., a drunkard, sot: exempla ebriosorum, Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 53; Plin. 30, 15, 51, § 145 al.—Comp., Cat. 27, 4.—

II Transf.: acina, i. e. full of juice, juicy, Cat. 27, 4.

In the wild

Ebriosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.15.p6
ebrioso Seneca, De Ira 1.4.1
Ebriosus Seneca, De Ira 3.8.2
ebriosioris Catullus, Carmina lyrics.27.4
ebriosus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.2.2
ebriosi Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 17

6 of 25 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.