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passus3

passus3 · P. a

Part. and P. a. of 2. pando

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Where it lives

De Bello Africo 23 · 17.68/10k
De bello Gallico 58 · 11.31/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 6 · 9.91/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 8 · 7.67/10k
Miltiades 1 · 7.5/10k
De Bello Civili 21 · 6.5/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 5 · 5.78/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 7 · 5.53/10k
Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 7 · 4.14/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k

Densest 12 of 88 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. passus — Lewis & Short

passus, a, um, P. a. of 2. pando.

Part. and

2. passus — Lewis & Short

passus, a, um,

Part. of patior.

3. passus — Lewis & Short

passus, ūs, m.from the root pat,

I a step, pace (cf.: gressus, gradus).

I Lit.: hinc campos celerl passu permensa parumper, Enn. ap. Non. 378, 20 (Ann. v. 74 Vahl.); Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 34; Lucr 4, 827; 877; Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 54: sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis, Verg. A. 2, 724: nec longis inter se passibus absunt, id. ib. 11, 907: rapidis ferri Passibus, id. ib. 7, 156; Ov. M. 11, 64: per litora lentis Passibus spatiari, id. ib. 2, 572: passu anili procedere, id. ib. 13, 533 et saep.: passibus ambiguis Fortuna errat, id. Tr. 5, 8, 15: caelestis (of glory), Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 18.—

II Transf.

A A footstep, track, trace: si sint in litore passus, Ov. H. 19, 27; id. P 2, 6, 21.—

B A pace, as a measure of length, consisting of five Roman feet: stadium centum viginti quinque nostros officit passus, hoc est pedes sexcentos viginti quinque, Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 85: nec exercitum propius urbem millia passuum ducenta admoverit, Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 26; id. Quint. 25, 79; id. Sest. 12, 29.

In the wild

passuum Cicero, Pro P. Quinctio 81
passuum Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 p19
passuum Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 24
passuum Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.34.13.2
passu Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.49
passibus Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 5.478

6 of 471 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. passus (scan p. 502; entry #8163).

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