The corpus record — Latin

Iuppiter

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 14s 1 · 84.03/10k
Carmen Saeculare 2 · 64.72/10k
Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 56.29/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 46.22/10k
Amphitruo 39 · 39.67/10k
Fasti 122 · 39.12/10k
Lysander 2 · 37.04/10k
Praefatiunculae 2 · 36.5/10k
Eclogarum Liber 8 · 29.22/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 30 · 26.63/10k
Saturae 12 · 26.51/10k
Hercules 18 · 23.65/10k

Densest 12 of 240 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Iuppiter — Walde–Hofmann

Iuppiter, Gen. Iovis (alat. auch Dievis; auch als Nominativ; ebenso Iovos, Bickel Rh. M. 80, 294 ff.) Juppiter, Gott des himmlischen Lichtes" (Kretschmer Cl. 13, 112) (seit Enn., rom, [gelehrt], ebenso Jovis dies „Donnerstag“ [neben iovia ds. Oribas, Svennung Wortst. 90], lovis barba „Mäusedorn“ seit Plin., Joviälis „zu Juppiter gehörig“ - seit Arnob.; vgl. EN. Ioviänus, Iorinus usw.); aus lü-piter, urspr. Vok. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Iuppiter, p. 764]

In the wild

Iouis Silius Italicus, Punica 13.631
Iovi Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 p1
Iovis Ovid, Epistulae 16.294
Iuppiter Statius, Thebais 5.584
Iovem Vergil, Aeneid 9.83
Iuppiter Seneca, Phoenissae 1

6 of 2,347 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. Iuppiter (scan p. 353; entry #5538).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Iuppiter (scan pp. 764-765; entry #1449).

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