1. marcus — Lewis & Short
marcus, i, m.cf. Sanscr. mar, mrid, to break, crush,
I a large hammer, Isid. Orig. 19, 7, 2, v. 1. marculus.
The corpus record — Latin
Marcus2
Marcus2 · m
a large hammer
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Verus 34 · 165.21/10k
- Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 41 · 74.53/10k
- Avidius Cassius 13 · 49.85/10k
- Helius 5 · 34.87/10k
- Diadumenus Antoninus 4 · 23.95/10k
- Antoninus Pius 5 · 22.28/10k
- Pro M. Caelio 16 · 18.89/10k
- Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 6 · 16.47/10k
- Antoninus Geta 2 · 16.26/10k
- Opilius Macrinus 4 · 16.06/10k
- Helvius Pertinax 4 · 15.38/10k
- Divus Julius 14 · 14.36/10k
Densest 12 of 85 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. Marcus — Lewis & Short
Marcus, i, m.,
I a Roman prænomen, in gen. represented by M. simply, e. g. M. Terentius Varro, M. Tullius Cicero;
written in full, MAARCVS,Inscr. Rein. 1006;
MARCVS,Inscr. Fabr. p. 324, 450; p. 342, 528 et saep. Afterwards also a surname, e. g. C. PONTIVS C. L. MARCVS, Inscr. Grut. 986, 5.—Hence, Marcĭānus, a, um, adj., pertaining to Marcus, Marcian: sodales, the priests who performed the sacred rites instituted in honor of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, Capitol. Pertinax, 15; cf. Spart. Sever. 7; Inscr. Grut. 379.
3. MARCUS — Walde–Hofmann
MARCUS, -Q, -um „verstümmelt“ (urspr. „mit einem Gebrechen an der Hand“, s. Ulp. dig. 21,1, 12, 3; CI. apıorsxeip’); „verkrüppelt; gebrechlich, unvollständig“ (seit Plaut., rom.; mancätus Lex Sal., &mancó, -äre ,verstümmele gänzlich“ Labien. frg. Sen. contr. 10, 4, 24, mancäster Gl.; aus mancus mancüre entl mnd. mank „hinkend“, ags. bemancian „verstümmeln“ und minken ds. [mit sek. Ablaut] nach Walde LEW.? 459, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. MARCUS, p. 929]
In the wild
- Marco Tacitus, Annales 2.p50
- Marcus Historia Augusta, Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 8
- Marco Suetonius, Tiberius 7.2.p2
- Marcus Historia Augusta, Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 14
- Marco Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 78
- Marcus Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.23.30.15
6 of 369 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Marcus (scan p. 412; entry #6594).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. MARCUS (scan pp. 929-932; entry #1677). Root candidates: *men-, *mang-, *meng-.
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