The corpus record — Latin

garrulitas

garrulitas · f

a chattering

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

Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 2 · 0.93/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

garrŭlĭtas — Lewis & Short

garrŭlĭtas, ātis, f.id.,

I a chattering, babbling, prating, talkativeness, garrulity (not in Cic.).

I Lit.: nunc quoque in alitibus facundia prisca remansit, Raucaque garrulitas studiumque immane loquendi, Ov. M. 5, 678: quem non abducet infixum cogitationibus illa neminem satiatura garrulitas? Sen. Cons. Helv. 16 fin.: (pueri) facie et garrulitate amabiles. Suet. Aug. 83: extemporalis, Quint. 2, 4, 15: ingens, Plin. 29, 1, 3, § 5: ingentia dona Auctoris pereunt, garrulitate sui, Mart. 5, 52, 8; Plin. Ep. 9, 10, 2; Suet. Aug. 83; Sen. Rhet. 2, 13, 2.—

II Transf.: cornix inauspicatae garrulitatis, Plin. 10, 12, 14, § 30.

In the wild

garrulitas Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.1.p3
garrulitatis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.12.p1
garrulitate Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.XV
garrulitas Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.4.15
garrulitatemque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.2
garrulitati Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 2.5

6 of 19 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.