The corpus record — Latin

foeditas

foeditas · f

foulness

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Where it lives

Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Ad Nationes 3 · 2.01/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.65/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

foedĭtas — Lewis & Short

foedĭtas, ātis, f.1. foedus,

I foulness, filthiness, horridness, hideousness, ugliness, deformity (class.).

I Physically: multae beluae insectantes odoris intolerabili foeditate depellunt, stench, Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 127: foeditas, qua Sulla obiit, Plin. 11, 33, 39, § 114: foeditates cicatricum, id. 33, 6, 35, § 110: Hipponacti notabilis foeditas vultus erat, id. 36, 5, 4, § 12: cujus scelere in hac vestitus foeditate fuerimus (viz. in a military cloak), Cic. Phil. 12, 6, 12: avertere omnes a tanta foeditate spectaculi (i. e. Mettii quadrigis discerpti) oculos, Liv. 1, 28, 11: Alpium, id. 21, 58 fin.—

II Mentally: si turpitudo in deformitate corporis habet aliquid offensionis, quanta illa depravatio et foeditas turpificati animi debet videri? Cic. Off. 3, 29, 105: foeditate sua turpitudo ipsa deterret, id. Fin. 3, 11, 38; Quint. 8, 6, 15: prima barbarismi ac soloecismi foeditas absit, id. 1, 5, 4; 12, 10, 76.

In the wild

foeditate Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.76
foeditatem Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 107.11
foeditatem Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.10
foeditas Celsus, De Medicina 2.6.p1
foeditate Tacitus, Annales 6.p1
foeditate Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 2.P5

6 of 53 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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