The corpus record — Latin

faenebris

faenebris · adj

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Where it lives

C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

faenē^bris — Lewis & Short

faenē^bris (less correctly fēn-, foen-), e, adj.faenus; cf. Paul. ex Fest. pp. 86 and 94,

I of or relating to interest or usury: leges, Liv. 35, 7: res, the matter of interest and debts, the relations between debtor and creditor, id. 7, 21: pecunia, lent on interest, Suet. Calig. 41: malum, Tac. 6, 16.

In the wild

faenebre Tacitus, Annales 6.p19
faenebribus Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.35.7.2
faenebribus Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 p6
faenebrem Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.7.21.5
faenebris Suetonius, C. Caligula 41.1

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.