The corpus record — Latin

genethliacus

genethliacus · adj

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Where it lives

Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

gĕnethlĭăcus — Lewis & Short

gĕnethlĭăcus, a, um, adj., = geneqliako/s,

I of or belonging to one's natal hour or nativity, genethliacal.

I adj.: ratio, the art of calculating nativities, Arn. 2, 116; cf. in the foll.—

II Subst.

A gene-thliacus, i, m., a calculator of nativities, Gell. 14, 1, 1.—

B genethliace, ēs, f., the art of calculating nativities, genethliacs, Mart. Cap. 3, § 228; 9, § 894.—

C Gene-thliacon, i, n., a birth-day poem, the title of a poem by Statius, Stat. S. 2, 7.

In the wild

genethliacon Statius, Silvae 2.pr
genethliacos Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 14.1.1

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.