The corpus record — Latin

firmitudo

firmitudo · f

firmness

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Where it lives

Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Annales 6 · 0.68/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 2 · 0.17/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

firmĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

firmĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.firmus,

I firmness, durability, strength (less freq. than firmitas, but class.).

I Lit.: tanta in eis (navibus) erat firmitudo, Caes. B. G. 3, 13, 8; cf.: tanta erat operis (i. e. pontis) firmitudo, id. ib. 4, 17, 7: vocis, Auct. Her. 3, 11, 20. —

II Trop., firmness, constancy, stability, strength of mind: animi, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 54; cf.: quod firmitudinem gravitatemque animi tui perspexi, Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 3: quantum esset hominibus praesidii in animi firmitudine, Caes. B. C. 3, 28, 4: animi, Tac. A. 4, 8: in patientia firmitudinem simulans, id. ib. 6, 46 fin.; cf. ib. 15, 62: non quod salus ab isto data quicquam habitura sit firmitudinis, Cic. Att. 11, 14, 2: haec constitutio habet firmitudinem, id. Rep. 1, 45: (translationes) per se minus habeant firmitudinis, id. Inv. 2, 19, 58.

In the wild

firmitudo Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 3.13.8
firmitudine Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.9.12
firmitudinis Cicero, Letters to Atticus 11.14.2
firmitudine Tacitus, Annales 14.p50
firmitudine Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.11.12
firmitudinem Tacitus, Annales 3.p6

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Where it came from

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