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Maro1

Maro1 · m

the family name of the poet

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Epigrammata 17 · 3.02/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Măro — Lewis & Short

Măro, ōnis, m.from root smar-, to be thoughtful; cf. memor,

I the family name of the poet P. Vergilius, Lact. 1, 15, 12: ingenium sacri miraris abesse Maronis: Sint Maecenates, non deerunt, Flacce, Marones, Mart. 8, 56, 5: summus, id. 12, 4, 1: altisonus, Juv. 11, 180.—Transf., a statue of Virgil, Juv. 7, 227.—Hence,

A Mă-rōnēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Virgil, Maronian, Virgilian: templum, Stat. S. 4, 4, 55.—

B Mărōnĭā-nus, a, um, adj., Maronian, Virgilian: culex, Stat. S. 2, 7, 74: stilus, Sid. Ep. 8, 1 in carm.

2. Măro — Lewis & Short

Măro, ōnis, m.,

I a mountain in Sicily, near the river Himera, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 88 (dub.; Jan., ad Maroneum et Gemellos colles).

3. Măro — Lewis & Short

Măro, ōnis, m., = *ma)rwn,

I the companion and instructor of the youthful Bacchus: terra Thraeca, ubi Liberi fanum inclutum Maro locavit, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, 14 Müll. (Trag. Rel. v. 170 Vahl.); Fulg. Myth. 2, 15.—

II Transf., v. l. Prop. 3, 30, 14 (al. leg. Anione), as the name of a statue beside a spring, prob. a Silenus (v. Herzb. Com. in Prop. 2, 32, 14).

4. maro — Walde–Hofmann

maro, -önis m. ,umbrischer Beamtentitel“ (Name des höchsten Magistrats, später *duovir? genannt) (CIL. 1? 2112; MA u. maronatei | ‘marönätü’ und Cogn. Maro): = etr. maru ‚(Rosenberg Staat der alten Italiker 46 ff, Cortsen St. u. B. 123, Leifer Stud. I 302°), unsicher sikul. maru (Whatmough PID. II 447. HI 30). Das Wort ist wrsch. etr. Erbgut, das von den Umbrern entl. ist (Trombetti bei. Leifer a. O., Sitüg Gnom. 7, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. maro, p. 949]

In the wild

Maronem Ausonius, Epistularum 22.po.57
Maronis Ausonius, Mosella ep.p2
Maronis Ausonius, Epistularum 2.p1
Maroni Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.227
Maronem Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 6.3
Maronem Martial, Epigrammata 14.186.1

6 of 35 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. maro (scan p. 821; entry #18093).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. maro (scan p. 949; entry #1703).

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