The corpus record — Latin

Halicarnassus

Halicarnassus · f

a city of great antiquity in Caria

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 2 · 1.22/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 3 · 0.4/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

Hălĭcarnassus — Lewis & Short

Hălĭcarnassus (-sos) or Hali-carnāsus, i, f., = *(alikarnasso/s,

I a city of great antiquity in Caria, the birthplace of the historians Herodotus and Dionysius, also celebrated for the mausolēum erected there, now Bodrun or Boudroum, Mel. 1, 16, 2 and 3; Plin. 5, 29, 29, § 107; Cic. Tusc. 3, 31, 75; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25; Liv. 37, 10, 11. —

II Derivv.

A Hălĭcarnasseus, ĕi and ĕos, m. adj., = *(alikarnasseu/s, of Halicarnassus: Scylax, Cic. Div. 2, 42, 88: Dionysius, Quint. 3, 1, 16: Cleon, Nep. Lys. 5.—

B Hălĭcarnassĭi, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Halicarnassus, Halicarnassians, Tac. A. 4, 55.—

C Hălĭcarnas-senses, ĭum, m., the same, Liv. 33, 20, 12.

In the wild

Halicarnassus Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.16.2
Halicarnasi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.14.p2
Halicarnassum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.34.p3
Halicarnasso Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.8.11
Halicarnasum Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.1.36
Halicarnasso Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.49

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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