The corpus record — Latin

propheta

propheta · m

a foreteller

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Where it lives

Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 54 · 48.12/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 10 · 16.92/10k
Adversus Marcionem 140 · 16.9/10k
De Fide Catholica 3 · 15.56/10k
De Carne Christi 9 · 9.47/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 36 · 8.23/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 18 · 7.94/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
De Scorpiace 6 · 7.53/10k
Cathemerina 5 · 6.79/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

prŏphēta — Lewis & Short

prŏphēta and prŏphētes, ae, m., = profh/ths,

I a foreteller, soothsayer, prophet (post-class.; cf. vates): prophetas in Adrasto Julius nominat antistites fanorum oraculorumque interpretes, Fest. p. 229 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 194 Rib.): prophetae quidam, deorum majestate completi, effantur ceteris, quae divino beneficio soli vident, App. de Mundo, p. 56, 29: sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant, Macr. S. 7, 13, 9: Aegyptius, propheta primarius, App. M. 2, p. 127, 3.—Of the Jewish prophets, Lact. 1, 4, 1; 4, 11, 1; 7, 24, 9; Vulg. Luc. 1, 70.

In the wild

propheta Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 107.13
prophetae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.22
prophetarum Minucius Felix, Octavius 35.1
prophetarum Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 13
prophetis Tertullian, De Patientia 5
prophetae Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 17

6 of 366 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. prophéta (scan p. 563; entry #9244).

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