The corpus record — Latin

October

October · adj

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Where it lives

Genethliacon ad Ausonium Nepotem 1 · 58.48/10k
Eclogarum Liber 6 · 21.91/10k
Apocolocyntosis 3 · 11.07/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 3 · 2.28/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 3 · 1.87/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 14 · 1.78/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 1 · 1.74/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Letters to Atticus 13 · 1.06/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Octōber — Lewis & Short

Octōber, bris, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to the eighth (month), the eighth, October, originally the eighth month of the Roman year, reckoning from March; usually connected with mensis: mense Octobri, Vell. 2, 56; Suet. Aug. 35; id. Dom. 13 al.: Octobres Idus, Mart. 12, 67, 3: Kalendae, id. 10, 87, 1: October equus appellatur, qui in campo Martio mense Octobri immolatur quot annis Marti, bigarum victricum dexterior, Paul. ex Fest. p. 178 Müll.—Subst.: Octōber, bris, m., October, Col. 11, 3 al.

2. October — Lewis & Short

October,

I a Roman surname, Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arval. p. 564.

3. Octóber — Walde–Hofmann

Octóber (-bris) „Oktober“ (seit Cato, vlt. und rom. auch Octó- "brius (seit Epist. Älex., Morland Orib. 118, Svennung Wortstud. 103], *Octufri, *Octember): s. december 1 329. 860, auch zu anderen Deutungen (zu unsicher überl. etr. xosfer s. Whatmough Harv. St. 42, 158 . Idg. *oktö(u) war ein alter Dual auf Grund einer Tetradenrechnung (Walde LEW.? 536, s. auch, novem) Weitere Analyse unsicher; nach Fick I* 15, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Octóber, p. 1106]

In the wild

Octobribus Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 p9
Octobris Cicero, Letters to Atticus 3.19.3
Octobribus Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.17.4
Octobris Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 8.8.5
Octobris Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.19.1
Octobribus Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.9.4

6 of 79 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. October (scan pp. 481-482; entry #7789).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Octóber (scan pp. 1106-1108; entry #1882). Root candidates: *ak-, *aks-, *proti-.

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