The corpus record — Latin

nugax

nugax · adj

jesting, trifling, frivolous

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

nūgax — Lewis & Short

nūgax, ācis (collat. form indecl. † nugas, sapro/s, Gloss. Philox.; so, † nugas, inutilis, Gloss. Vet.; cf. Don. p. 1749 P.; adj.nugor,

Charis. p. 1; 15; 22; 120 ib.; Diom. p. 286 P.; Prisc. p. 649; 701 ib.; Val. Prob. 1464 and 1478 ib.),

I jesting, trifling, frivolous, Varr. ap. Non. 355, 22: qui tam nugax esset, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 1: nugax es, Petr. 52; Ambros. Ep. 58, 6 ext.— Adv. only sup.: nūgācissimē (-sŭmē), in the most trifling manner, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 90.

In the wild

nugax Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 8.15.1
nugax Petronius, Satyricon 52
nugax Petronius, Satyricon 52
nugacissume Plautus, Trinummus 3.3

Where it came from

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

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.