The corpus record — Latin

paucitas

paucitas · f

a small number

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

Where it lives

Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
De Bello Africo 8 · 6.15/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
De bello Gallico 12 · 2.34/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 3 · 2.23/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 15 · 2.02/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 2 · 1.51/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Apologia 3 · 1.4/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

paucĭtas — Lewis & Short

paucĭtas, ātis, f.paucus,

I a small number, fewness, scarcity, paucity (class.): quanta oratorum sit semperque fuerit paucitas, Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 8: in summā paucitate amicorum, id. Fam. 4, 11, 1: portuum, Caes. B. G. 3, 9: paucitatem militum Caesaris despiciens, id. B. C. 3, 111: loci, Liv. 2, 50, 10: quae res et paucitatem eorum insignem et multitudinem Etruscorum . . . faciebat, id. 2, 50, 8: nimia paucitas suorum, id. 28, 3, 8.—Without a gen.: de pantheris agitur mandatu meo diligenter; sed mira paucitas est, Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 2; Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 3; Sall. C. 53, 4; Cic. Inv. 1, 22, 32; Quint. 5, 7, 23.

In the wild

paucitate Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.16.21
paucitati Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 p22
paucitate Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.22.24.7
paucitatemque Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 3.9.4
paucitatem Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.20.8
paucitatem Apuleius, Apologia 17.p2

6 of 135 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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