The corpus record — Latin

Pescennius

Pescennius · m

name of a Roman

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Where it lives

Pescennius Niger 18 · 79.05/10k
Clodius Albinus 11 · 40.7/10k
Didius Julianus 2 · 12.58/10k
Severus 5 · 11.87/10k
Alexander Severus 2 · 1.87/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Pescennĭus — Lewis & Short

Pescennĭus, i, m.,

I name of a Roman gens.

I A friend of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 6.—Esp.,

II Pescennius Niger, a Roman emperor; hence, Pescenniānus, a, um, adj., pertaining to the emperor Pescennius: reliquiae, Spart. Sev. 15, 4: domus, id. Pesc. Nig. 12, 4.

In the wild

Pescennius Historia Augusta, Pescennius Niger 4
Pescennius Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.8.15
Pescennium Historia Augusta, Pescennius Niger 8
Pescennii Historia Augusta, Clodius Albinus 1
Pescennium Historia Augusta, Severus 6
Pescennii Historia Augusta, Pescennius Niger 9

6 of 41 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.