The corpus record — Latin

Gradivus

Gradivus · m

a surname of Mars

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Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Punica 25 · 3.28/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Argonautica 10 · 2.69/10k
Thebais 16 · 2.56/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Grādīvus — Lewis & Short

Grādīvus (once Grădīvus, i, m.perh. from gradior, he who steps forth, marches out,

Ov. M. 6, 427),

I a surname of Mars: (Numa) Salios item duodecim Marti Gradivo legit, Liv. 1, 20, 4: rex Gradive, Verg. A. 10, 542: Nymphas venerabar agrestes Gradivumque patrem, id. ib. 3, 35: Homericus, Juv. 13, 113: jure venis, Gradive, Ov. F. 2, 861; Juv. 2, 128; so absol.: Gradivus, id. ib. 3, 677; 5, 556; id. M. 14, 820; 15, 863.

2. Grädivus — Walde–Hofmann

Grädivus, -; m. „Beiname des Mars“: Fremdwort unbekannter Herkunft; nach Norden Alt-Germanien 105%. 280 illyr. oder thrak. Abzulehnen Holthausen IF. 38, 71 (als „Zermalmer“ : got. gakrótón „zermalmen“ [wohl idg. o, s. Walde-P. I 600)); — Walde LEW.* s. v. (Entlehnung aus u. Grabovius [s. carpinus, grabätus); lautl. unmöglich, vgl. Goldmann Beitr. 13385); — Lavedan Dict. de la myth. et des antiqu. gr. et rom. 1931, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Grädivus, p. 648]

In the wild

Gradivo Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.20.4
Gradivum Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
Gradivum Statius, Thebais 9.822
Gradivumque Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.2.45.14
Gradivus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8.228
Gradivo Statius, Thebais 9.439

6 of 88 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Grädivus (scan p. 648; entry #1264). Root candidates: *grasi-.

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