The corpus record — Latin

Flaccus2

lop-eared

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

Where it lives

Pro L. Flacco 87 · 79.79/10k
Cato 3 · 70.09/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 21 · 14.24/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 17 · 10.05/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 11 · 7.46/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 7 · 6.15/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 2 · 5.64/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 7 · 5.54/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 8 · 5.52/10k
Epigrammata 31 · 5.51/10k

Densest 12 of 79 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. flaccus — de Vaan

flaccus 'lop-eared' [adj. o/a] (Varro+) Derivatives: flaccere 'to decline in strength' (Acc.+), flaccescere 'to languish' (P&c^Xflaccidus 'weak, drooping' (Lucr.+). For the meaning of flaccus, see Parker 2000. Flaccus belongs to a category of adj. flagito with (expressive?) internal geminate, hence from *flako- or *flako-» No etymology. All etymologies based on a development *m/- >fl- must be discarded. Bibl.: WH I: … — [de Vaan, s.v. flaccus, p. 237]

2. flaccus — Lewis & Short

flaccus, a, um, adj.etym. dub.,

I flabby, hanging down.

I Lit.: auriculae, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4.—

II Transf., of persons, flap-eared: ecquos deos paetulos esse arbitramur? ecquos silos, flaccos, frontones, capitones, quae sunt in nobis? Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 80.—Hence,

3. Flaccus — Lewis & Short

Flaccus, i, m.,

I a Roman surname; cf.: aures homini tantum immobiles: ab iis Flaccorum cognomina, Plin. 11, 37, 50, § 136; esp. freq. in the gens Valeria, Cornelia, and Horatia; e. g. si quid in Flacco viri est, i. e. in Q. Horatio, Hor. Epod. 15, 12.—

B Transf., the writings of Horace: stabunt pueri, cum totus decolor esset Flaccus, Juv. 7, 227.—

II Deriv.: Flaccĭā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Flaccus, Flaccian: area, Val. Max. 6, 3, 1.

In the wild

Flacco Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 1
Flaccus Tacitus, Historiae 4.26
Flaccum Tacitus, Historiae 1.9
Flacce Martial, Epigrammata 8.55.5
Flaccus Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.40.33.3
Flaccus Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.42s

6 of 505 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. flaccus (scan pp. 237-238; entry #584). Root candidates: *flako-, *bhleh2g-, *flagro-.

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.