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haedus

haedus

young goat-buck, kid

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

Where it lives

  • Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
  • Eclogues 8 · 17.63/10k
  • Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
  • Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
  • Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
  • de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
  • Carmina 4 · 3.01/10k
  • Georgicon 4 · 2.83/10k
  • Mercator 2 · 2.34/10k
  • Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
  • Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 2 · 1.48/10k
  • de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. haedus — de Vaan

haedus 'young goat-buck, kid' [m. ο] (PL+; variants edus, βόηΞ (Varro), aedus, faedus) Derivatives: haedillus 'kid' (PL), haedinus 'of a kid' (Varro+X Pit. *χαιάο-* IE cognates: Go. gaits [m.], OHG geiz, OS get, OIc. geit 'goat' < PGm. *gait-s [nom.]. The restricted distrubtion, together with the impossibility to derive this word from a known IE root, suggest a loanword *gf*aid- 'goat'. BibL: WH I: 632, EM 288, IEW … — [de Vaan, s.v. haedus, p. 292]

2. haedus — Lewis & Short

haedus (less correctly hoedus, and archaic aedus or ēdus; cf. i, m.Sanscr. huda, ram; O. H. Germ. Geiz; cf. Gr. xi/maros,

Quint. 1, 5, 19, and see the letter H; Sabine, fedus, like fircus for hircus, cf. Varr. L.L. 5, § 97 Müll., and see the letter F),
I a young goat, a kid (cf.: hircus, caper).
I Lit., Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 4; 8; Cic. de Sen. 16, 56; Verg. G. 4, 10; Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; id. Epod. 2, 60; Mart. 10, 87, 17.—As a fig. for wantonness: tenero lascivior haedo, Ov. M. 13, 791; as a fig. of weakness, Lucr. 3, 7.—
II Transf., plur.: Haedi, a small double star in the hand of the Waggoner (Auriga), Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 43, 110; so in plur., Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 8; Col. 11, 2, 73: pluviales Haedi, Verg. A. 9,668; cf. nimbosi, Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 13. —In sing.: purus et Orion, purus et Haedus erit, Prop. 2, 26 (3, 22), 56.

In the wild

6 of 103 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. haedus (scan p. 292; entry #742).
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. haedus (scan p. 312; entry #4902).

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