1. ēlectrus — Lewis & Short
ēlectrus, a, um, adj.electrum,
I of amber:
nummi,Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25, 9.
The corpus record — Latin
electrus1
electrus1 · adj
of amber
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
- Agamemnon 4 · 7.19/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
- Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k
- Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
- Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
- Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
- Adversus Hermogenem 2 · 1.8/10k
- Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
- de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
- Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
- Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ēlectrus — Lewis & Short
ēlectrus, i, m.,
I son of Perseus and father of Alcmena, Plaut. Am. prol. 99; called also Electryon, Hyg. Fab. 244.
In the wild
- electro Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.4.p6
- electro Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.4.p6
- electrum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.26.p3
- electri Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.339
- electrum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.13.p2
- electrum Tertullian, Adversus Hermogenem 25
6 of 66 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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