The corpus record — Latin

gressus

Part., from gradior

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Achilleis 4 · 5.55/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 4.89/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Punica 27 · 3.54/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Troades 2 · 2.94/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k

Densest 12 of 39 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. gressus — Lewis & Short

gressus, a, um,

Part., from gradior.

2. gressus — Lewis & Short

gressus, ūs, m.gradior,

I a stepping, going, step, course, way.

A Lit. (poet. and post-class.; cf.: gradus, passus, incessus, ingressus): tendere gressum ad moenia, Verg. A. 1, 410; so in sing., id. ib. 6, 389; 11, 29.—In plur.: gressus glomerare superbos, Verg. G. 3, 117; 4, 360; Val. Fl. 1, 183; Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33; Gell. 1, 11, 6; 11, 13, 10.—

B Transf.

1 Poet., of the course of a vessel: huc dirige gressum, Verg. A. 5, 162.—

2 A pace, as a measure of length, Gromat. Vet. p. 373, 9.

In the wild

gressibus Statius, Thebais 11.519
gressibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.16.6
gressus Seneca, Phoenissae 1
gressibus Silius Italicus, Punica 9.300
gressus Statius, Silvae 5.3.269
gressus Seneca, Agamemnon 1

6 of 121 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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