1. omnis — de Vaan
The corpus record — Latin
omnis
omnis
the whole of, all, every
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Where it lives
- Valeriani Duo 20 · 196.46/10k
- De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 176.47/10k
- Timaeus 64 · 151.59/10k
- Pro M. Marcello 41 · 148.17/10k
- Epilogus 2 · 148.15/10k
- De Consolatione ad Polybium 79 · 139.33/10k
- Probus 57 · 138.25/10k
- Quomodo Substantiae in Eo Quod Sint Bonae Sint Cum Non Sint Substantialia Bona 17 · 123.82/10k
- De Fato 60 · 121.07/10k
- Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 42 · 118.38/10k
- De Consolatione ad Helviam 80 · 118.26/10k
- De bello Gallico 577 · 112.48/10k
Densest 12 of 376 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. omnĭs — Lewis & Short
omnĭs, e (omnia is freq. a dissyl. in the poets, as adj.etym. dub.; perh. akin to ambo and Gr. a)mfi/ (syn.: cunctus, universus),
Verg. G. 4, 221; id. A. 6, 33; Lucr. 1, 1106 Lachm.),omnium rerum, quas ad beate vivendum sapientia comparaverit, nihil esse majus amicitiā,Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 65:
ego nulli omnium neque populorum neque regum ... non ausim me comparare,Liv. 37, 53, 20:
nemo omnium imperatorum, qui vivunt,id. 42, 34, 7.—With sup.: cur, si cuiquam novo civi potuerit adimi civitas, non omnibus antiquissimis civibus possit, all, even of the oldest families, Cic. Caecin. 35, 101:
id effugiet qui non omnia minima repetet,id. Part. Or. 17, 60.—Cf. with etiam:
ut omnium tibi auxilia adjungas, etiam infimorum,Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 12: omnibus tuis etiam minimis commodis, Treb. Pol. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 1; Sall. C. 44, 5:
Nero ad omnes etiam minimos Circenses commeabat,Suet. Ner. 22.—But with summa, extrema, and ultima, the neutr. plur. omnia is often closely connected in a distributive sense (= quidquid summum, etc.):
a te, qui nobis omnia summa tribuis,Cic. de Or. 3, 4, 15:
sed is omnia summa sperans aedilicius est mortuus,id. Brut. 28, 109:
constituit extrema omnia experiri,Sall. C. 26, 5:
quod omnia ultima pati quam se regi tradere maluissent,Liv. 37, 54, 2:
omnes omnium ordinum homines,Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 20:
omnibus precibus petere contendit,with prayers of every kind, most urgently, Caes. B. G. 5, 6.—Esp. as subst.
quis est omnium, qui? etc.,Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 66:
unus ex omnibus,id. de Or. 1, 22, 99.—With gen. part.:
Macedonum omnes,Liv. 31, 45, 7:
praetorum, nisi qui inter tumultum effugerunt, omnes interficiuntur,id. 24, 32, 8; cf. id. 10, 31, 5; cf.
also: ut omnes Tarquiniae gentis exules essent,id. 2, 2, 11:
omnes Hernici nominis,id. 9, 42, 11.—
omnium nomine quicumque ludos faciunt, etc.,Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9:
omnia facere,to do every thing, make every exertion, spare no pains, Cic. Lael. 10, 35: omnia fore prius arbitratus sum, quam, etc., I should have believed any thing rather than that, etc., id. Att. 8, 11, 5: omnia mihi sunt cum aliquo, I agree with him on all topics, in all points (but mihi omnia communia sunt is the better read., Baiter), id. Fam. 13, 1, 2:
in eo sunt omnia,every thing depends on that, id. ib. 15, 14, 5:
omnia, quae sunt ad vivendum necessaria,id. Off. 1, 4, 11; 1, 43, 153; id. Fam. 4, 3, 3:
omnia, quaecumque agimus,Liv. 30, 31, 6:
esse omnia alicui,to be one's all, Ov. H. 12, 162:
Demetrius iis unus omnia est,Liv. 40, 11:
per omnia,in all points, in every thing, in every respect, Quint. 5, 2, 3:
vir alioqui per omnia laudabilis,Vell. 2, 33:
plebes omnia quam bellum malebat,Liv. 2, 39, 8; Sall. J. 79, 7; cf. Cic. Quint. 26, 82: eadem omnia, just the same:
mihi certum est efficere in me omnia eadem, quae tu in te faxis,Plaut. As. 3, 3, 23: alia omnia, just the contrary:
te alia omnia, quam quae velis, agere, moleste ferrem,Plin. Ep. 7, 15, 2; cf. alius, 6: omnia, adverbially, altogether, entirely, in every respect:
tramites, omnia plani et ex facili mobiles,Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 25, 3:
omnia Mercurio similis,in all respects, Verg. A. 4, 558.—
militat omnis amans,every lover, all lovers, Ov. Am. 1, 9, 1: quia sine omni malitiā'st, without any (colloq. for sine ullā), Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 57; so,
sine omni periclo,Ter. And. 2, 3, 17;
but: ne sine omni quidem sapientiā,not without all knowledge, a complete philosophy, Cic. de Or. 2, 1, 5:
cum omnis honestas manet a partibus quattuor,id. Off. 1, 43, 152:
materia ad omnem laudem, et publice, et privatim, etc.,every kind of, Liv. 6, 22, 6:
castra plena omnis fortunae publicae privataeque,id. 22, 42, 6:
cenare holus omne,every kind of, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 2:
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres,the whole of Gallia, Caes. B. G. 1, 1; cf.:
omnis insula est in circuitu vicies centena millia passuum,id. ib. 5, 13:
caelum,Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 112:
corpus intenditur,id. Tusc. 2, 23, 56:
sanguinem suum omnem profundere,every drop of, all, id. Clu. 6, 18:
omnis in hoc sum,I am wholly engaged in this, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 11.—With plur. verb: omnis Graecia decoravere, etc., Cat. ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19.—As subst.: omne, is, n., every thing:
nos autem, ab omni quod abhorret ab oculorum auriumque adprobatione, fugiamus,Cic. Off. 1, 35, 128 al.—Hence, adv.: omnīno, q. v.
In the wild
- omnia Propertius, Elegiae 4.4.85
- omni Boethius, Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 4
- omnibus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 12.5.7
- omnibus Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.48.2
- omnibus Cicero, De Oratore 1.181
- omnia Seneca, De Beneficiis 3.11.3
6 of 34,431 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. omnis (scan p. 442; entry #1201). Root candidates: *omn-, *umn-.
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. omnis (scan p. 485; entry #7854).
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