eunūchus — Lewis & Short
eunūchus, i, m., = eu)nou=xos,
I a eunuch.
I Prop., Cic. Or. 70, 232; Mart. 3, 82; Juv. 6, 366; 378; 12, 35; Vulg. Gen. 37, 36 et saep.—
II (Sc. fabula.) Fem., the name of one of Terence's comedies.
The corpus record — Latin
eunuchus
eunuchus · m
a eunuch
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- In Eutropium 26 · 36.2/10k
- Eunuchus 24 · 22.13/10k
- Alexander Severus 7 · 6.55/10k
- De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
- Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
- Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k
- Phormio 2 · 1.84/10k
- Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
- Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
- Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
- Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
- Tyranni Triginta 1 · 1.52/10k
Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- eunuchi Claudian, In Eutropium 1.438
- eunuchos Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 66
- eunuchis Claudian, In Eutropium 1.99
- eunuchos Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 23
- Eunuchus Terence, Phormio front.subject_3
- eunuchum Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.19
6 of 96 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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