The corpus record — Latin

ludus

ludus · m

a play

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 19s 2 · 99.5/10k
Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 22 · 29.23/10k
De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k
De Spectaculis 14 · 22/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 5 · 18.83/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 2 · 18.69/10k
Gallieni Duo 6 · 16.33/10k
Cento Nuptialis 2 · 14.66/10k
Technopaegnion 2 · 13.47/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k

Densest 12 of 166 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. lūdus — Lewis & Short

a play

2. lüdus — Walde–Hofmann

alt Zoidos (Sommer Hb

Attestations

6 of 767 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan pp. 861-863; entry #1602 Review: Under source audit
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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.