1. lapsus — Lewis & Short
lapsus, a, um,
Part., from 1. labor.The corpus record — Latin
lapsus
lapsus
Part., from 1. labor
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Where it lives
- In Rufinum 4 · 6.98/10k
- Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
- Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
- Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
- Peristephanon Liber 4 · 2.28/10k
- Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
- Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
- In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
- De Ira 3 · 1.35/10k
- de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. lapsus — Lewis & Short
lapsus, ūs, m.1. labor,
I a falling, fall; a slipping, sliding, gliding, running, flowing, flying, flight, etc. (class.).
I Lit.:
ac celeri ferme percurrunt fulmina lapsu,Lucr. 6, 324:
atque ea, quae lapsu tandem cecidere vetusto, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 19: infrenis equi lapsu jacens,Verg. A. 10, 750:
tum quassao nutant turres, lapsumque minantur,Luc. 6, 136:
horrere lapsus tectorum assiduos,Juv. 3, 8.—Of a landslide:
locus recenti lapsu terrae abruptus,Liv. 21, 36, 2:
lapsu scalarum exanimatus,by falling down stairs, Plin. 7, 37, 37, § 124:
ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,Liv. 21, 35 fin.:
puerilium dentium,the shedding, Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 6:
si lacus emissus lapsu et cursu suo ad mare profluxisset,Cic. Div. 1, 44, 100:
(stellae) certo lapsu spatioque feruntur,course, id. ib. 1, 11, 17; cf.:
medio volvuntur sidera lapsu,Verg. A. 4, 524:
molli zephyros descendere lapsu adspiciunt,Val. Fl. 1, 686:
accepere deae, celerique per aethera lapsu, periere, etc.,id. 1, 91:
volucrum lapsus,flight, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 99; cf.: facili lapsu ad deos pervolare, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 3, 18 (19), 6:
gemini lapsu delubra ad summa dracones Effugiunt,Verg. A. 2, 225:
vitis serpens multiplici lapsu et erratico,Cic. de Sen. 15, 52:
rotarum,i. e. rolling wheels, Verg. A, 2, 236 (cf. troxw=n ba/seis, Soph. Elect. 718;
and remigium alarum = alae,Verg. A. 1, 301): arte materna rapidos morantem Fluminum lapsus, i. e. flumina, Hor. C. 1, 12, 10. —
B Transf., of the effects of a fall; in plur.: contra ulcera, rupta, lapsusque, bruises, contusions received in falling, Plin. 22, 17, 20, § 43.—
II Trop., a failing, error, fault (rare but class.):
amor lapsum animi ludificat,Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 11:
ab omni lapsu continere temeritatem,to restrain one's rashness in believing from leading him into error, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 45:
cum sint populares multi variique lapsus,of losing popularity, id. de Or. 2, 83, 339:
haud alius fidei pronior lapsus, quam ubi, etc.,Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 12.
In the wild
- lapsu Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.23
- lapsu Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.22.5.8
- lapsibus Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 4.190
- lapsibus Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 12.37
- lapsu Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.91
- lapsu Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.208
6 of 71 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. lapsus (scan p. 358; entry #5605).
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