The corpus record — Latin

homicida

homicida · comm

a man-slayer

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Where it lives

De Spectaculis 4 · 6.29/10k
De Pudicitia 8 · 5.95/10k
De Scorpiace 3 · 3.77/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
Ad Nationes 4 · 2.68/10k
Apologeticum 5 · 2.5/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 4 · 1.87/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Controversiae 7 · 1.06/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 2 · 0.88/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hŏmĭcīda — Lewis & Short

hŏmĭcīda, ae, comm.homo-caedo,

I a man-slayer, homicide, a murderer, murderess (syn.: interfector, sicarius, percussor).

I Lit.: statuendum tibi esse, utrum illi, qui istam rem gesserunt, homicidaene sint, an vindices libertatis ... Confiteor eos plus quam sicarios, plus quam homicidas, plus etiam quam parricidas esse, Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 30 sq.; Juv. 2, 26; Quint. 7, 3, 34: an, qui se interficit, homicida sit, id. 7, 3, 7: mandatores caedis perinde ut homicidae puniuntur, Paul. Sent. 5, 23, 11: qui, cum vellet occidere, id casu aliquo perpetrare non potuit, ut homicida punitur, id. 5, 23, 3; cf. Gai Inst. 3, 194.—Of a woman: quid si tantum homicida? quid si tantum rea fuisses? Sen. Contr. 1, 2.—*

II In a good sense, as a transl. of the Homeric a)ndrofo/nos, an epithet of Hector, slayer of men, Hor. Epod. 17, 12.

In the wild

homicidam Tertullian, De Pudicitia 5
homicida Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.2.17
homicida Tertullian, De Patientia 5
homicidas Cicero, Philippicae 2.31
homicidam Tertullian, De Scorpiace 7
homicida Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.42

6 of 68 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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