The corpus record — Latin

edax

edax · adj

voracious

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕdax — Lewis & Short

ĕdax, ācis, adj.1. edo; cf. Sanscr. adakas,

I voracious, gluttonous.

I Prop., Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 16; Ter. Eun. prol. 38; id. Heaut. prol. 38; Cic. Fl. 17, 41; id. Fam. 9, 20, 2 (abl. edaci, as in Ov. M. 15, 354; Val. Fl. 6, 420 et saep.); Hor. S. 2, 2, 92; id. Ep. 2, 1, 173; Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 11: vultur, rapacious, id. Am. 2, 6, 33 et saep.—Sup.: edacissima animalia, Sen. Ep. 60, 2.—

II Poet. transf., of inanimate and abstr. things, devouring, destroying: ignis, Verg. A. 2, 758; Ov. M. 9, 202; id. F. 4, 785: imber, Hor. C. 3, 30, 3: natura, Ov. M. 15, 354: tempus, id. P. 4, 10, 7; cf. with gen.: tempus rerum, id. M. 15, 234: vetustas, id. ib. 15, 872: curae, gnawing, Hor. C. 2, 11, 18 et saep.

†† edeatroe, qui praesunt regiis epulis, dicti a)po\ tw=n e)desma/twn, Paul. ex Fest. p. 82, 20 Müll. [e)de/atroi, seneschals of the table, carvers, v. Lidd. and Scott s. v.].

In the wild

edax Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.10.15
edax Lucan, Pharsalia 9.742
edacem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.12.2
edax Statius, Thebais 12.430
edacibus Horace, Epistulae 2.1.173
edax Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.234

6 of 52 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.