The corpus record — Latin

jurisconsultus

jurisconsultus · m

one skilled in the law, a lawyer

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Where it lives

Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Noctes Atticae 7 · 0.63/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

jūris-consultus — Lewis & Short

jūris-consultus, or less freq. jūre-consultus (also juris consultus and consultus juris), i, m.2. jus-consulo,

I one skilled in the law, a lawyer (class.).—Form jurisconsultus: si quaereretur, quisnam jurisconsultus vere nominaretur, eum dicerem, qui legum et consuetudinis ejus, qua privati in civitate uterentur, et ad respondendum et ad agendum et ad cavendum peritus est, Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 212; id. Leg. 2, 19, 47; id. Mur. 11, 25; Quint. 5, 14, 34.—Form jureconsultus: ea jureconsultorum ingeniis corrupta sunt, Cic. Mur. 12, 27; id. Fam. 3, 1, 3; 7, 8, 2; Gell. 11, 18, 16; Lact. Mort. Pers. 22, 24.

In the wild

iurisconsultus Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p317
iurisconsulti Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.88.12
iureconsulti Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.18.16
iureconsulti Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.1.a
iureconsultus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 7.5.1
Iurisconsultus Petronius, Satyricon 137

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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