The corpus record — Latin

pacificus

pacificus · adj

peacemaking

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.86/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pācĭfĭcus — Lewis & Short

pācĭfĭcus, a, um, adj.id.,

I peacemaking, pacific, peaceable (class.): persona, * Cic. Att. 8, 12, 4: secures, the axes in the fasces of the lictors, Luc. 7, 63: Janus, Mart. 8, 66.—Plur. as subst.: beati pacifici, Vulg. Matt. 5, 9.—Esp.: victimae pacificae, peaceofferings, Vulg. Exod. 29, 28: hostiae, id. ib. 32, 6.—As subst.: pācĭfĭca, ōrum, n., peace-offerings: obtulit pacifica, Vulg. 2 Reg. 6, 17 et saep.—Hence, adv.: pācĭ-fĭcē, pacifically, peaceably (post-class.): consulere, Cypr. Ep. 41; Vulg. Gen. 26, 31.

In the wild

Pacificas Lucan, Pharsalia 7.64
Pacifico Lucan, Pharsalia 3.305
Pacifici Martial, Epigrammata 12.62.8
pacificis Statius, Silvae 5.3.189
pacifica Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.12.4
pacificum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.12.19

6 of 22 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.