The corpus record — Latin

Fannius

the name of a Roman gens

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

Where it lives

Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 45 · 94.5/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 16 · 17.14/10k
Brutus 9 · 3.59/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 3 · 2.26/10k
Letters 11 · 1.7/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
De Republica 2 · 0.92/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7 · 0.88/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Letters to Atticus 8 · 0.65/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Fannĭus — Lewis & Short

Fannĭus, a,

I the name of a Roman gens: 1. C. Fannius Strabo, son-in-law of Laelius, introduced as a speaker by Cicero in de Rep. and Lael.; 2. His son of the same name, who was consul A. U.C. 632, Cic. Brut. 26, 99 sq.; id. de Or. 3, 47, 183; 3. C. Fannius, an historian, contemporary with Pliny the younger, Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 1 sq.—

II Derivv.

A Fannĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Fannius, Fannian: lex, a sumptuary law introduced by the consul C. Fannius, Gell. 2, 24; Macr. S. 2, 13.—

B Fannĭānus, a, um, adj., the same: conturbat me epitome Bruti Fanniana, Cic. Att. 12, 5, 3 Orell. N. cr.: charta, manufactured in the establishment of Q. Rhemnius Fannius, Plin. 13, 12, 24, §§ 75, 78.

In the wild

Fanni Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 11
Fannia Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.2.3
Fannius Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 16.p2
Fanniae Pliny the Younger, Letters 7.19.1
Fanni Cicero, Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 16
Fanniae Pliny the Younger, Letters 9.13.5

6 of 134 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.