luctus — Lewis & Short
sorrow, mourning, grief, affliction, distress, lamentation
The corpus record — Latin
luctus
luctus
sorrow, mourning, grief, affliction, distress, lamentation
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Octavia 12 · 22.94/10k
- Troades 12 · 17.62/10k
- Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 2 · 16.67/10k
- De Consolatione ad Polybium 9 · 15.87/10k
- Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 5 · 12.02/10k
- Parentalia 3 · 11.54/10k
- De Consolatione ad Marciam 9 · 10.69/10k
- De Consolatione ad Helviam 7 · 10.35/10k
- Pro P. Sestio 13 · 7.74/10k
- Cum Populo Gratias Egit 2 · 7.57/10k
- Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 3 · 6.93/10k
- Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Densest 12 of 121 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
Attestations
- luctus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.3.1
- luctus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.2.8
- luctus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.6.13
- luctu Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.5.5
- luctus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.7.8
- luctu Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.15.4
6 of 575 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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