The corpus record — Latin

of

witness

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Where it lives

Hecyra 42 · 46.59/10k
Heautontimorumenos 42 · 38.23/10k
Adelphi 37 · 37.38/10k
Phormio 40 · 36.89/10k
Eunuchus 37 · 34.12/10k
Andria 27 · 27.41/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 4 · 4.75/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

of — de Vaan

of 'witness' in the meaning 'testicle', cf Gr. παραστάται δύο. Leumann 1977: 234 explains antestarifrom*anti-testan. Bibl.: WH II: 676f, EM 689, IEW 1090-92, Coleman 1992: 424, Sihler 1995: 411, Meiser 1998: 80, Untermann 2000: 768-770, LIV *steh2-. -+ tres te trie us 'frowning, stern' [adj. o/a] (Varro+) The connection with terd 'to rub', proposed by WH and IEW, is semantically unconvincing. Possible preforms are … — [de Vaan, s.v. of, p. 632]

In the wild

6 of 231 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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