The corpus record — Latin

Fabricius

Fabricius · adj

name of a Roman gens. The most celebrated is

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 13s 2 · 117.65/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 14s 1 · 84.03/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 25 · 12.03/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 4 · 9.29/10k
De Providentia 2 · 4.89/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
De Senectute 3 · 3.63/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Pro P. Sestio 5 · 2.98/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k

Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Fābrĭcĭus — Lewis & Short

Fābrĭcĭus, a, um, adj.faber,

I name of a Roman gens. The most celebrated is C. Fabricius Luscinus, leader of the Romans against Pyrrhus, and famous for his frugality, and for his noble conduct towards Pyrrhus, Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 268; id. Off. 3, 22, 86; id. Planc. 25, 60; Val. Max. 4, 4, 3; Gell. 1, 14; Juv. 9, 142; Plin. 33, 12, 54, § 153 et saep.—

II Hence,

A Fābrĭcĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Fabricius, Fabrician: pons, leading over the Tiber to the island of Aesculapius, built by one L. Fabricius, now Ponte di quattro capi, Hor. S. 2, 3, 36.—

B Fābrĭcĭānus, a, um, adj., the same: venenum, prepared by C. Fabricius, a friend of Oppianicus, Cic. Clu. 66, 189 (cf. ib. 16, 47).

In the wild

Fabricium Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.4.2
Fabricium Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.165
Fabricium Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 18
Fabricium Juvenal, Saturae 4.11.91
Fabricio Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 38
Fabricii Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.8.a

6 of 166 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Fabricius (scan p. 232; entry #3602). Root candidates: *dhabhr-.

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