The corpus record — Latin

Otho

Otho · m

a Roman surname

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Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 5 · 58.82/10k
Otho 7 · 44.39/10k
Historiae 159 · 30.9/10k
Galba 5 · 18.13/10k
Vitellius 4 · 16.62/10k
Divus Vespasianus 4 · 12.5/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Controversiae 14 · 2.12/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 3 · 1.4/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏtho — Lewis & Short

ŏtho, ōnis, m., = *)/oqwn,

I a Roman surname.

I L. Roscius Otho, a knight, a friend of Cicero, and author of the law that the knights should occupy the first fourteen seats in the theatre next to the orchestra, Cic. Mur. 19, 40; cf. Ascon. ad Cornel. p. 79 Orell.—Hence, sic libitum vano, qui nos distinxit, Othoni, Juv. 3, 159.—

II M. Salvius Otho, a Roman emperor, whose biography is given by Suetonius: mollis Otho, Mart. 6, 32, 2; Juv. 2, 99.—Hence,

B ŏthōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the emperor Otho, Othonian: Othoniani duces, of the emperor Otho, Tac. H. 2, 24: partes, id. ib. 2, 33.

In the wild

OTHO Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.7.15
Othoni Tacitus, Historiae 1.88
OTHO Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.7.20
Otho Tacitus, Historiae 1.79
Othonis Suetonius, Galba 6.1
Othone Tacitus, Historiae 1.13

6 of 243 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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.