The corpus record — Latin

gaesum

gaesum · n

a long

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Where it lives

Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. gaesum — Lewis & Short

gaesum, less correctly gēsum, i, n.Celtic,

I a long, heavy javelin of the Gauls; Gr. gaiso/s or gai=son (syn.: dolo, sarissa, sparus, lancea), Caes. B. G. 3, 4, 1; Liv. 8, 8, 5; 9, 36, 6; 26, 6, 5; Varr. ap. Non. 555, 13; Verg. A. 8, 662; Sen. Hipp. 111; cf.: gaesum grave jaculum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 99 Müll. N. cr.—In poets the weapon of the Africans, Sil. 2, 444; of the Greeks, Stat. Th. 4, 64.

2. gaesum — Walde–Hofmann

gaesum, -; n. „schwerer eiserner Wurfspieß“ ("t&lum Galliarum tenerum? Non. 555), übtr. (wie hasta, tölum usw., Gl, 18, 45) „penis“, gaesäti (daneben vereinzelt -&s nach milités, Jacobsohn ZdA. 66, 219) „mit einem gaesum bewaffnete gallische Soldtruppen" (seit der Zeit des Aue): gall. Wort, vgl. gall.-gr. yaioog oder -ov „leichter Wurf-. spieß*, VN. l'aicürat, -ot T Gaestto ri „König der Gaesaten“, Gaeso376 gaeum — … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. gaesum, p. 607]

In the wild

gaesa Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.25.2
gaeso Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.6.5
gaesa Vergil, Aeneid 8.662
gaesaque Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 3.4.1
gaesaque Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 p8
gaesa Statius, Achilleis 2.132

6 of 21 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. gaesum (scan p. 289; entry #4512).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. gaesum (scan pp. 607-609; entry #1204). Root candidates: *jhei-, *gäs-.

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