The corpus record — Latin

longaevus

longaevus · adj

of great age, aged, ancient

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Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Silvae 6 · 2.4/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Aeneid 14 · 2.21/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Thebais 9 · 1.44/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

longaevus — Lewis & Short

longaevus, a, um, adj.longus-aevum,

I of great age, aged, ancient (poet.): parens, Verg. A. 3, 169; cf. id. ib. 2, 525: senes, id. ib. 5, 715: caput, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 52. pons, Stat. Th. 10, 864: senecta, Prop. 2, 10, 47 (3, 5, 31): vetustas, Mart. Spect. 5.—

II Subst.: longaeva, ae, f., an old woman: cunctantem longaeva manu deducit, Ov. M. 10, 462.

In the wild

longaevo Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 52.118
longaevo Vergil, Aeneid 9.650
longaevo Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.16.8
longaevus Statius, Thebais 10.235
longaevo Statius, Thebais 4.74
longaevus Statius, Thebais 1.529

6 of 66 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. longaeuus (scan p. 390; entry #6171).

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