The corpus record — Latin

Justinus

Justinus · m

Justin

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

Where it lives

Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

Justīnus — Lewis & Short

Justīnus, i, m.,

I Justin.

I A Roman historian in the second century of the Christian era, who made an abstract of the historical work of Trogus Pompeius.—

II Justinus I., a Roman emperor of low birth (a swine-herd) in the sixth century of the Christian era.—

III Justinus II., a Roman emperor in the latter half of the sixth century. —Hence, Justīnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the emperor Justin: labores, Coripp. Laud. Just. 1, 263.—

IV A philosopher who defended the Christians under Antoninus Pius, called also Justin Martyr, Hier. Ep. 70, 4 al.

In the wild

Iustine Martial, Epigrammata 11.65.1

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.