The corpus record — Latin

mimus

mimus · m

A mimic actor, mime

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Where it lives

Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 4 · 15.06/10k
Gallieni Duo 3 · 8.17/10k
Florida 3 · 3.81/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 2 · 3.24/10k
De Spectaculis 2 · 3.14/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
C. Caligula 2 · 2.62/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k

Densest 12 of 51 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mīmus — Lewis & Short

mīmus, i, m., = mi=mos.

I A mimic actor, mime, Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242: oratori minime convenit distortus vultus gestusque: quae in mimis rideri solent, Quint. 6, 3, 29; Ov. A. A. 1, 501: nobilis, Juv. 8, 198. —

II A mimic play, mime, farce.

A Lit.: mimi exitus, Cic. Cael. 27, 65: tutor, mimus vetus, id. de Or. 2, 64, 259: mimos scribere, Ov. Tr. 2, 497: mimorum scriptor, Quint. 1, 10, 17: mimos commentari, Cic. Phil. 11, 6, 13: mimum agere, Suet. Caes. 39; Juv. 13, 110: mimus quis melior plorante gula? id. 5, 157.—

B Trop., any thing farcical, pretended, unreal.—Of the sham triumph of Caligula, Suet. Calig. 45: commendationis, Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 53: humanae vitae, Sen. Ep. 80, 7: mimus et simulatio, id. ib. 26, 5.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mimus (scan p. 427; entry #6866).

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