The corpus record — Latin

Nazareth

Nazareth · f

a city in Palestine, the home of the parents of Jesus

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Where it lives

Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k

What it meant

Nāzăreth — Lewis & Short

Nāzăreth, indecl., or Nāzăra, ae, f.,

I a city in Palestine, the home of the parents of Jesus, Vulg. Marc. 1, 9; id. Matt. 2, 23; 4, 13: a Nazareth potest aliquid boni esse? id. Johan. 1, 46.—Form Nazara, Juvenc. 2, 197.—Hence, Nazărēnus, Nază-rēus, and Nazărus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Nazareth, Nazarene: Jesus Nazarenus, Vulg. Johan. 19, 19; also, Nazarene, i. e. Christian: disciplina Nazarena, Prud. stef. 10, 45: Nazarei viri, Christians, id. ap. Symm. 1, 550: Nazara plebes, Juvenc. 3, 29.—Subst.

1 Nazărēnus, i, m., the Nazarene, i. e. Christ, Prud. Cath. 7, 1. —

2 Nazăraeus, i, m., a Nazarene, Vulg. Matt. 2, 23.

In the wild

Nazareth Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.8.p1
Nazareth Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.8.p1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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