The corpus record — Latin

harmonia1

an agreement of sounds

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Thebais 9 · 1.44/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 2 · 1.41/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Architectura 7 · 1.21/10k
De Republica 2 · 0.92/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 5 · 0.88/10k
De Rerum Natura 4 · 0.82/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. harmŏnĭa — Lewis & Short

harmŏnĭa, ae (archaic

I gen. sing. harmoniaï, Lucr. 3, 131), f., = a(rmoni/a, an agreement of sounds, consonance, concord, harmony; pure Lat. concentus.

I Lit.: velut in cantu et fidibus, quae harmonia dicitur, Cic. Tusc. 1, 10, 20; cf.: harmoniam ex intervallis sonorum nosse possumus: quorum varia compositio etiam harmonias efficit plures, id. ib. 1, 18, 41: ad harmoniam canere mundum, id. N. D. 3, 11, 27: numeros et geometriam et harmoniam conjungere, id. Rep. 1, 10; Vitr. 5, 4, 6.—

II Transf.

A Concord, harmony; in gen., Lucr. 3, 131: neque harmoniā corpus sentire solere, id. 3, 118: nam multum harmoniae Veneris differre videntur, id. 4, 1248.—

B Singing, a song: te nostra, Deus, canit harmonia, Prud. Cath. 3, 90.

2. Harmŏnĭa — Lewis & Short

Harmŏnĭa, ae, f.,

I daughter of Mars and Venus, the wife of Cadmus, and mother of Semele, Ino, Agave, and Polydorus, Hyg. Fab. 6; 148; 159.—Acc.: Harmonien, Ov. A. A. 3, 86.

In the wild

harmoniam Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.71
harmonias Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.41
harmonia Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.3
Harmoniae Statius, Thebais 4.206
harmoniam Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.100
harmonia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.16.17

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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