The corpus record — Latin

Jura

Jura · m

a chain of mountains extending from the Rhine to the Rhone

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Pharsalia 7 · 1.37/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
De bello Gallico 3 · 0.58/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Jūra — Lewis & Short

Jūra, ae (also Jūres, ĭum, m., m.,

Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 31; 16, 39, 76, § 197),

I a chain of mountains extending from the Rhine to the Rhone, Caes. B. G. 1, 2.—Hence, Jūren-sis, e, adj., of Mount Jura, Sid. Ep. 4, 25.

In the wild

Iura Ovid, Epistulae 2.31
Iuris Cicero, Pro A. Caecina 76
Iuris Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.1.21
Iuras Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.11.p1
Iura Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 5.1
Iuris Lucan, Pharsalia 5.398

6 of 26 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.