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paganus

paganus · adj

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Where it lives

De Corona 3 · 6.17/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 25 · 3.55/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Historiae 8 · 1.55/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pāgānus — Lewis & Short

pāgānus, a, um, adj.pagus.

I Of or belonging to the country or to a village, rustic: PORTICVS, Inscr. (A. U. C. 659) Orell. 3793: lex, Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 28: foci, Ov. F. 1, 670.—

B Subst.: pāgānus, i, m., a countryman, peasant, villager, rustic: nulli pagani aut montani, Cic. Dom. 28, 74: pagani vel decuriones, Cod. Th. 7, 21, 2.—

II Opposed to military, civil, civic: vel paganum est peculium vel castrense, Cod. Just. 3, 28, 37.—As subst.: pāgānus, i, m., a civilian, a citizen, Tac. H. 3, 24: paganorum turba, Suet. Galb. 19: milites et pagani, Plin. Ep. 10, 18, 2; Juv. 16, 33.—

III Transf., rustic, unlearned: cultus, Plin. Ep. 7, 25, 6; cf. semipaganus.—

B In eccl. Lat. (like gentilis) for heathen, pagan (opp. Jewish or Christian); and subst., a heathen, a pagan: ritus cultusque, Cod. Th. 16, 7, 2: sacerdotales paganae superstitionis, ib. 16, 10, 20; Ter. Cor. Mil. 11: deorum falsorum multorumque cultores paganos vocamus, Aug. Retract. 2, 43; Hier. in Psa. 41: ex locorum agrestium compitis et pagis pagani vocantur, Oros. 1 praef.

In the wild

pagana Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.pr.6
paganorum Tacitus, Historiae 2.15
pagani Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.86b.1
pagana Propertius, Elegiae 4.4.76
paganos Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.23
pagani Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 74

6 of 58 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. paganus (scan p. 285; entry #4460).

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