The corpus record — Latin

Januarius

Januarius · adj

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Where it lives

Helius 2 · 13.95/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 3 · 11.36/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 3 · 6.93/10k
Philippicae 24 · 4.57/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 2 · 3.9/10k
De vita Hadriani 2 · 3.9/10k
De Lege Agraria 5 · 3.63/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Divus Julius 3 · 3.08/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — Lewis & Short

Jānŭārĭus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to Janus.—Esp.,

A Januarius mensis, the month of January: auctio constituta in mensem Januarium, Cic. Agr. 1, 2, 4: Januario mense cura ut Romae sis, id. Att. 1, 2, 2.—Also, subst.: Jānŭārĭus, i, m. (sc. mensis), January: a. d. VII. Idus Januarii, Caes. B. C. 1, 5; Hirt. B. G. 8, 2.—

B Kalendae Januariae, the first day of January. This was a festival on which the Romans presented their good wishes to each other It was also regarded as a fortunate day on which to begin any undertaking, Cic. Agr. 1, 8, 26; 2, 3, 6; 2, 3, 8; Ov. F. 1, 64; Col. 11, 2: Nonae Januariae, Caes. B. C. 3, 6; Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 177.

In the wild

Ianuariis Cicero, Pro L. Murena 4
Ianuario Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p2
Ianuariis Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 4
Ianuario Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.2.2
Ianuario Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.1.2
Ianuarias Petronius, Satyricon 30

6 of 150 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.