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haeresis

haeresis · f

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Where it lives

De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 52 · 62.57/10k
Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 5 · 7.85/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 5 · 4.5/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 2 · 3.59/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
De Carne Christi 3 · 3.16/10k
Adversus Praxean 4 · 2.71/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 6 · 2.65/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

haerĕsis — Lewis & Short

haerĕsis (scanned hĕrĕsis in ĕos, f., = ai(/resis.

Prud. Psych. 725; Ham. 64), is and

I A (philosophical or religious) sect, a school of thought (=secta): Cato in ea est haeresi, quae nullum sequitur florem orationis, Cic. Par. prooem. § 2; as Greek, id. Fam. 15, 16, 3: Pythagorae haeresim sequi, Vitr. 5 praef.—

2 Heretical religious doctrine, heresy, Tert. adv. Haer. 1 sq. et saep.: Ariana, the Arian heresy, Sid. Ep. 7, 6: plurimae sectae et haereses, Lact. 4, 30, 2.— Hĕrĕsis, personif., Prud. Psych. 710.— Comically: joca tua plena facetiarum de haeresi Vestoriana ... risisse me satis, i. e. craft, trade, Cic. Att. 14, 14, 1.—

II A calling, profession: navalis, Cod. Th. 13, 6, 9 sq.

In the wild

haeresi Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum intro.2
haeresis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 51.4
haeresis Tertullian, Adversus Praxean 8
haereses Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 3
haeresi Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 3
haereses Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 5

6 of 115 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. haeresis (scan p. 312; entry #4908).

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