The corpus record — Latin

lustro1

a frequenter of brothels

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

Distribution

Epicedion in Patrem 1 · 26.39/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 4 · 9.62/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.57/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Argonautica 20 · 5.38/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Punica 38 · 4.98/10k
Timaeus 2 · 4.74/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
Achilleis 3 · 4.16/10k

Densest 12 of 78 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. lustro — de Vaan

a frequenter of brothels

2. lustro — Lewis & Short

to purify by means of a propitiatory offering

3. lustro — Lewis & Short

wanderer, vagabond

4. luströ — Walde–Hofmann

önis „Herumlungerer in Bordellen seit Naev

Attestations

lustra Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.5.6
lustra Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.4.13
lustrauit Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 324
lustra Ausonius, Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1.3.2
lustra Ausonius, Epicedion in Patrem 4.37
lustrauit Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.13.p1

6 of 288 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.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 369; entry #969 Review: Under source audit
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Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan p. 872; entry #1613 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.