The corpus record — Latin

Falernus

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

Falernus Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.8.11.13
Falernus Tibullus, Elegiae 1.9.34
Falernus Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.66
Falernus Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.11.16.5
Falernus Silius Italicus, Punica 7.166
Falernus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.6.p2

6 of 7 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. falernus (scan p. 237; entry #3677).

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.