The corpus record — Latin

Nero

Nero · m

a family name in the

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Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 9 · 105.88/10k
Galba 15 · 54.39/10k
Otho 8 · 50.73/10k
Divus Vespasianus 8 · 25.01/10k
Annales 219 · 24.64/10k
Cato 1 · 23.36/10k
Nero 16 · 20.47/10k
Octavia 10 · 19.11/10k
Historiae 79 · 15.35/10k
Vitellius 3 · 12.46/10k
Tiberius 10 · 11/10k
Verus 2 · 9.72/10k

Densest 12 of 85 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Nĕro — Lewis & Short

Nĕro, ōnis, m.a Sabine word, = fortis; cf. Nerio = fortitudo; root nar; Sanscr. naras, man; Gr. a)nh/r; cf. h)nore/h,

I a family name in the gens Claudia, whose most famous member was the emperor C. Claudius Nero, Tac. A. lib. 12-16 passim; Suet. Ner. 1 sqq.; Juv. 8, 223; 12, 129 et saep.—

II Hence,

A Nĕrōnēus, a, um, adj., Neronian: mensem quoque Aprilem Neroneum appellavit, Suet. Ner. 55: unda, the warm baths of Nero, Stat. S. 1, 5, 6: certamen, the games in the Grecian manner instituted by Nero, Suet. Vit. 4; so, agon, id. Ner. 12.—

B Nĕrōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of Nero, Neronian: Neronianum dictum, Cic. de Or. 2, 61, 248: piscina, perh. laid out after the pattern of the fish-ponds of Nero, near Baiæ, Cassiod. Var. 2, 39.—

2 Nĕrōnĭānus, i, m., a Roman surname: Patrobius Neronianus, Suet. Galb. 20.—

C Nĕrōnĭus, a, um, adj., Neronian, Suet. Ner. 12.

In the wild

Neronis Tacitus, Historiae 1.2
Nero Juvenal, Saturae 3.8.223
Nero Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.4.4
Neronis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.45
Neroni Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.20.4
Neronis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.13.p4

6 of 748 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Nero (scan p. 1770; entry #3394).

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