The corpus record — Latin

mundus

clean, elegant

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Where it lives

Timaeus 30 · 71.06/10k
De Fide Catholica 11 · 57.05/10k
De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 54.35/10k
de Natura Deorum 190 · 53.13/10k
Ad Martyras 7 · 47.04/10k
Precationes 2 · 43.2/10k
Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 37.52/10k
Hamartigenia 20 · 31.29/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 30 · 26.63/10k
De Pallio 8 · 23.34/10k
Octavius 27 · 23.28/10k

Densest 12 of 175 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mundus — de Vaan

mundus 'clean, elegant' [adj. ο/ά] (Ρ1.+) Derivatives: munditia "cleanliness, elegance' (PL+X mundulus 'elegant' (PL); — [de Vaan, s.v. mundus, p. 408]

2. mundus — Lewis & Short

mundus, a, um, adj.Sanscr. mund, purificari,

I clean, cleanly, nice, neat, elegant.

I Lit. (class.; syn.: lautus, nitidus, purus): supellex, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 7: caena, id. C. 3, 29, 14: ager, Gell. 19, 12, 8: mundissimum cubile desiderat (animal), Col. 7, 9, 14: jam intus mundissimumst, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 7.—Poet., with abl., = ornatus: Ostia munita est: idem loca navibus pulchris Munda facit, adorned, Enn. ap. Tert. p. 258 Müll. (Ann. v. 146 Vahl.).—

B Transf.

1 Of mode of living, neat, fine, elegant, smart, genteel: cultus justo mundior, too elegant dress, Liv. 8, 15.— As subst.: mundus, i, m. (sc. homo), an elegant or nice person, Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23.—

2 Of quality, not coarse, fine (post-class.): annonae, of wheat, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 42, 3: panis, id. ib. 37, 3.—

II Trop.

A Of speech, neat, fine, elegant (poet. and in postclass. prose): verba, Ov A. A. 3, 479: versus, quibus mundius nihil reperiri puto, Gell. 19, 9, 10: in Gallos mundius subtiliusque est, quam cum Gallis aut contra Gallos, id. 17, 2 med.—

B Subst.: mun-dum, i. n., only in the phrase: in mundo (esse or habere), in readiness (ante-class.): tibi vita seu mors in mundo est, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 181 P. (Ann. v. 457 Vahl.: in mundo pro palam et in expedito ac cito, Charis.): nempe habeo in mundo, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 46: mihi in mundo sunt virgae, id. As. 2, 1, 16; 2, 2, 50: nescio quid vero habeo in mundo, id. Stich. 3, 2, 23; id. Ps. 1, 5, 85 Ritschl.—

C In eccl. Lat., morally pure, upright, free from sin: cor mundum crea in me, Deus, Vulg. Psa. 50, 12: beati mundo corde, id. Matt. 5, 8.—Hence, adv., in two forms (both, for the most part, anteand post-class.).—

a mundē, cleanly, neatly, prettily: (copia) in suo quaeque loco sita munde, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 5: verrite aedes, spargite munde, Titin. ap. Charis. p. 183 P.: parum munde et parum decenter, Sen. Ep. 70, 20: munde facti versus, Gell. 10, 17, 2: quam mundissime purissimeque fiat, Cato, R. R. 66, 1.—

b mun-dĭter, cleanly, neatly.

1 Lit.: cum sedulo munditer nos habeamus, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 26.—

2 Trop., decently, with propriety: dicere, App. Mag. p. 296, 14.

3. mundus — Lewis & Short

mundus, i, m. (

I neutr. collat. form, mundum: legavit quidam uxori mundum omne penumque, all her toilet, Lucil. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 3, and ap. Non. 214, 17) [1. mundus], toilet ornaments, decorations, dress (of a woman).

I Lit.: mundus muliebris est, quo mulier mundior fit: continentur eo specula, matulae, unguenta, vasa unguentaria, et si qua similia dici possunt, veluti lavatio, riscus ... Unguenta, quibus valetudinis causā unguimur, mundo non continentur, Dig. 34, 2, 25: munditiae et ornatus et cultus, haec feminarum insignia sunt: hunc mundum muliebrem appellārunt majores nostri, Liv. 34, 7, 9: virginalis, Att. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 142 Müll.: quamvis auro, veste, gemmis, omnique cetero mundo exornata mulier incedat, App. M. 2, p. 118. —

II Transf.

A In gen., an implement (ante- and post-class.): operae messoriae mundus, implements for the harvest work, App. M. 6 init.: Cereris, the mystical casket of Ceres, id. Mag. p. 282 (the expression in mundo esse and habere belongs to the adj. mundus, v. mundus, II. B.).—

B Like the Gr. ko/smos, the universe, the world, esp. the heavens and the heavenly bodies: ut hunc hac varietate distinctum bene Graeci ko/smon, nos lucentem mundum nominaremus, the heavens, Cic. Univ. 10: nam quem ko/smos Graeci, nomine ornamenti appellaverunt. eum nos a perfectā absolutāque elegantiā, mundum, Plin. 2, 4, 3, § 8: concussit micantia sidera mundus, heaven shook, Cat. 64, 206: aetherius, Tib. 3, 4, 17: arduus, Verg. G. 1, 240: aestuat infelix angusto limite mundi, Juv. 10, 169. Also: mundus caeli, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Sat. v. 10, p. 156 Vahl.): o clarissima mundi Lumina, Verg. G. 1, 5 sq.: immensi copia mundi, Ov. M. 2, 157: ipse mundus deorum hominumque causā factus est...Est enim mundus quasi communis deorum atque hominum domus, aut urbs utrorumque, the world, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 154: innumerabiles, id. Ac. 2, 17, 55: e tabulā pictos ediscere mundos, parts of the world, Prop. 5, 3, 37.—

2 Transf.

a The world, i. e. the earth, the inhabitants of the earth, mankind (poet.): quicumque mundo terminus obstitit, Hor. C. 3, 3, 53: spes miseri mundi, Luc. 5, 469; Stat. S. 3, 3, 87: fastos evolvere mundi, Hor. S. 1, 3, 112: mundum laedere, mankind, Claud. Ruf. 1, 87: nullā in parte mundi cessat ebrietas, Plin. 14, 22, 29, § 149; 30, 1, 2, § 8; Flor. 2, 12, 1; Just. 30, 4, 9: (Alexander) scrutatur maria ignota, et, ut ita dicam, mundi claustra perrumpit, Sen. Ep. 119, 7: mundi principio, Juv. 15, 147.—

b The heavens, i. e. the sky, the weather (post-class.): tepida indulget terris clementia mundi, Grat. Fal. 288: ad Eoos tractūs mundique teporem, Luc. 8, 365.—

c The sun (perh. only in Manilius): quā mundus redit, Manil. Astron. 1, 36; id. ib. 3, 591.—

d Euphemistically for the Lower World, the infernal regions. The opening into this mundus was at Rome, in the Comitium, and was kept covered with a stone (lapis manalis); three times in the year, on the 24th of August, the 5th of October, and the 8th of November, days sacred to the gods of the infernal regions, this round pit was opened, and all sorts of fruits were thrown into it as offerings, Varr. ap. Macr. S. 1, 16, 18; Paul. ex Fest. s. v mundus, p. 154 Müll., and s. v. manalem lapidem, p. 128 ib.—

e Esp. (eccl. Lat.), the world as opposed to the church; this world, the realm of sin and death, as opposed to Christ's kingdom of holiness and life: non pro mundo rogo, Vulg. Johan. 17, 9: de mundo non sunt, id. ib. 17, 16: princeps hujus mundi (i. e. Satan), id. ib. 12, 31; 14, 30: regnum meum non est de hoc mundo, id. ib. 18, 36; cf. id. Eph. 2, 2; 6, 12.

In the wild

mundi Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.5.4
mundi Seneca, Oedipus 1
mundi Lucan, Pharsalia 4.393
mundus Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 51.6
mundi Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.3.8
mundo Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.13

6 of 1,776 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. mundus (scan p. 408; entry #1105).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mundus (scan p. 445; entry #7157).

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