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jurgium

jurgium · n

a quarrel, strife, dispute, altercation, contention

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

Where it lives

  • C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
  • Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
  • Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 2 · 1.18/10k
  • Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
  • Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
  • Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
  • Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 1 · 0.81/10k
  • Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
  • Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
  • Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 1 · 0.6/10k
  • Historiae 3 · 0.58/10k
  • Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jurgĭum — Lewis & Short

jurgĭum, i, n.jurgo,

I a quarrel, strife, dispute, altercation, contention (class.): jurgio tandem uxorem abegi ab janua, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 18; 5, 2, 21: jam jurgio enicabit, si intro rediero, id. Merc. 3, 2, 14: benevolorum concertatio, non lis inimicorum, jurgium dicitur, Cic. Rep. 4, 8, 8 (ap. Non. p. 430): in jurgio respondere, Cic. de Sen. 3, 8: optimum quemque jurgio lacessere, Tac. A. 14, 40: quempiam jurgio invadere, id. H. 2, 53: petulantibus jurgiis illudere, id. ib. 3, 32: jurgia jactare, to quarrel, Verg. A. 10, 95: tecum jurgia nectere, engage in mutual strife, Ov. Am. 2, 2, 35: per jurgia dicere aliquid, in the heat of a dispute, id. Tr. 5, 11, 1: jurgia prima sonare incipiunt, Juv. 15, 51: alterna jurgia, id. 6, 268: facere, Plin. 16, 44, 89, § 239: erumpere in jurgia, to break out into railing, Just. 10, 2, 5: jurgio aliquem corripere, Suet. Galb. 5: inter Helvidium et Eprium acre jurgium, Tac. H. 4, 6: vixit cum uxore sine jurgio, without a quarrel, Plin. Ep. 8, 5, 1.—
II Law t. t. A legal dispute, a separation between husband and wife (cf. divortium): quod si non divortium sed jurgium fuit, dos ejusdem matrimonii manebit, Dig. 23, 3, 31.

In the wild

6 of 36 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.