The corpus record — Latin

naevus

naevus · m

a mole

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
de Natura Deorum 3 · 0.84/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

naevus — Lewis & Short

naevus, i, m.for gnaevus, root gna-, gen-, of genus, gnatus, a mark born with one; cf.: natus, natura, etc.,

I a mole or wart on the body.

I Lit.: naevus in articulo pueri... est corporis macula naevus, Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 79: egregio inspersos reprehendas corpore naevos, Hor. S. 1, 6, 67: nullus in egregio corpore naevus erit, Ov. Tr. 5, 13, 14; Plin. 22, 25, 67, § 137; 28, 4, 6, § 34.—

II Trop., a spot, blemish, fault (late Lat.): naevi instar est, ut frater meus, etc., Symm. 3, 34 dub.

In the wild

naevum Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.80
naevos Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.6.67
Naevos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.4.p1
naevos Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur praef
naevo Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.11.p3
naevo Ausonius, Epistularum 30.10

6 of 16 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. naeuus (scan p. 452; entry #7254).

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