The corpus record — Latin

odiosus

odiosus · adj

hateful

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Where it lives

Clodius Albinus 2 · 7.4/10k
De Senectute 5 · 6.05/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Curculio 2 · 3.24/10k
Menaechmi 3 · 3.16/10k
Bacchides 3 · 3.04/10k
Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k

Densest 12 of 64 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏdĭōsus — Lewis & Short

ŏdĭōsus, a, um, adj.odium,

I hateful, odious, vexatious, offensive, unpleasant, disagreeable, annoying, troublesome, etc. (class.; syn.: invisus, offensus).

I Of persons: odiosus mihi es, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 28: infestum et odiosum esse alicui, id. Truc. 1, 1, 65; Lucr. 4, 1165: senex, Ov. R. Am. 471. —

II Of things: dona odiosa ingrataque, Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 7: odiosa et inepta amatio, id. Rud. 4, 5, 14: motus odiosiores, Cic. Off. 1, 36, 130: verbum, id. Or. 8, 25: odiosissima natio, Phaedr. 2, 5, 4: cupidis rerum talium odiosum fortasse et molestum est carere, it is vexatious, unpleasant, Cic. Sen. 14, 47; id. Phil. 1, 11, 27.—Hence, adv.: ŏdĭōsē, in a hateful manner, odiously, vexatiously: facere, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 139: dicere, Cic. Brut. 82, 284; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 49; Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 262.—Sup.: odiosissime, Aug. de Dono Persev. 61.

In the wild

odiosi Cicero, De Oratore 3.81
odiosam Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.4.1
odiosus Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 3.1
odiosius Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.1.2
odiosa Cicero, Letters to Atticus 14.6.1
odiosum Cicero, Orator 25

6 of 134 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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