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Nerva

Nerva · m

a Roman family name of the

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Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
De vita Hadriani 3 · 5.85/10k
Domitianus 2 · 5.81/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 4 · 3.04/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 2 · 2.97/10k
Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Tyranni Triginta 1 · 1.52/10k
Letters 9 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Nerva — Lewis & Short

Nerva, ae, m.,

I a Roman family name of the Licinii, Cocceii, and Silii. So M. Cocceius Nerva, the Roman emperor.—Hence,

II Nervĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the emperor Nerva, Nervian: miles, of the Nervian legion, Claud. B. Gild. 421.

In the wild

Nerva Historia Augusta, De vita Hadriani 2
Nerva Tacitus, Annales 4.p68
Nervaque Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.18.1
Nervae Martial, Epigrammata 11.4.6
Nervas Historia Augusta, Tacitus 6
Nervas Martial, Epigrammata 5.28.4

6 of 63 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. Nerua (scan p. 463; entry #7458).

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