The corpus record — Latin

enervis

enervis · adj

nerveless

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Where it lives

Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ē-nervis — Lewis & Short

ē-nervis, e, adj.nervus,

I nerveless, enervated, weak, effeminate (rare and postAug., for enervatus; cf. enervo): corpus, Petr. poët. 119, 25: homo, Sen. Thyest. 176: compositio (with effeminata), Quint. 9, 4, 142; cf. orator (with solutus), Tac. Or. 18 fin.: et fluxum spectaculum, Plin. Pan. 33, 1; Val. Max. 6, 4, 2; 8, 8 init. al.—Adv.: enervĭter, weakly: blandus, August. cont. Faust. 22, 50.

In the wild

enervis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.74.33.p1
enervis Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.13.4
eneruis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.4.2.p1
eneruis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.7.15.p3
enervi Petronius, Satyricon 119
enervis Minucius Felix, Octavius 37.12

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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