The corpus record — Latin

norma

norma · f

a square

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Academica 2 · 4.11/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Architectura 11 · 1.91/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

norma — Lewis & Short

norma, ae, f.for gnorima (cf. Gr. gnw/rimos); root, gno-; cf. gnarus, nosco,

I a square, employed by carpenters, masons, etc., for making right angles (cf. regula).

I Lit.: anguli ad normam respondentes, Vitr. 7, 3; 9, 2; Plin. 36, 22, 51, § 172.—

II Trop., a rule, pattern, precept: nec sunt haec rhythmicorum aut musicorum acerrima norma dirigenda, Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190: vitam ad certam rationis normam dirigere, id. Mur. 2, 3: numquam ego dicam Fabricium, Curtium, Coruncanium ad istorum (Stoicorum) normam fuisse sapientes, id. Lael. 5, 18: hanc normam, hanc regulam, hanc praescriptionem esse naturae, id. Ac. 2, 46, 140: natura norma legis est, id. Leg. 2, 24, 61: juris, id. de Or. 2, 42, 178: loquendi, Hor. A. P. 72: norma et regula oratoris, Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 8.

In the wild

normam Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.pr.6
normam Vitruvius, De Architectura 3.1.3
norma Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 72
normae Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.3.5
normam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.56.p3
normaque Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.514

6 of 39 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. norma (scan p. 468; entry #7559).

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