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The corpus record — Latin

factiosus

factiosus · adj

that has

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Where it lives

  • Lysander 1 · 18.52/10k
  • Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
  • Jugurtha 6 · 2.83/10k
  • Catilina 3 · 2.81/10k
  • Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
  • Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
  • Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
  • In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
  • Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
  • De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
  • De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
  • Letters 2 · 0.31/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — Lewis & Short

factĭōsus, a, um, adj.factio, II.,

I that has or seeks to form a party, powerful or eager for power, factious, seditious (class.; syn.: perduellis, seditiosus, tumultuosus, turbulentus, potens, praepotens): homo dives, factiosus, a demagogue, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 50: potens et factiosus, Auct. Her. 2, 26, 40: homo (with potens), Nep. Ages. 1: exsistunt in re publica plerumque largitores et factiosi, ut opes quam maximas consequantur, et sint vi potius superiores quam justitia pares, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 64: non divitiis cum divite, neque factione cum factioso, certabat, Sall. C. 54, 5; id. J. 31, 15 Dietsch: vel optimatium vel factiosa tyrannis illa vel regia, etc., i. e. oligarchical, Cic. Rep. 1, 29, 45: linguă factiosi, busy with the tongue, i. e. promising a great deal, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 13.—Comp.: mulier, Aur. Vict. Caes. 21.—Sup.: quisque, Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 5. —* Adv.: factĭōse, mightily, powerfully, Sid. Ep. 4, 24.

In the wild

6 of 21 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.