The corpus record — Latin

idolum

idolum · n

an image

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

Where it lives

De idolatria 62 · 89.84/10k
De Corona 23 · 47.29/10k
Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
De Spectaculis 14 · 22/10k
De Scorpiace 6 · 7.53/10k
Peristephanon Liber 9 · 5.12/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 3 · 5.08/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 4 · 3.56/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 21 · 2.98/10k
De Pudicitia 4 · 2.98/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

īdōlum — Lewis & Short

īdōlum or -on, i, n., = ei)/dwlon.

I an image, form, esp. a spectre, apparition, ghost: idola atque atomos vincere Epicuri volam, Lucil. ap. Non. 478, 29: mox apparebat idolon, senex macie et squalore confectus, etc., Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 5 (in Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 21; Fam. 15, 16, 1 and 2, written as Greek).—

II In the Church fathers, an idol: idolorum cultor, Aug. in. Psa. 78, 3; id. Serm. 123, 3: venerator idolorum, id. Conf. 8, 2: deficere a cultu idolorum, Lact. Mort. Pers. 2, 6; Tert. Idol. 1 sq.; id. Spect. 13 et saep.—Scanned īdŏlum, Prud. adv. Symm. 2, 48; Sedul. 5, 146 al.

In the wild

idolum Tertullian, De idolatria 3
idolum Tertullian, De idolatria 3
idolorum Tertullian, De idolatria 22
idolum Tertullian, De idolatria 3
idolis Tertullian, De Corona 7
idola Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 13

6 of 195 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.