The corpus record — Latin

quattuordecim

quattuordecim · num. adj

fourteen

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

Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 5 · 3.33/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 2 · 1.48/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 2 · 1.2/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 1 · 0.81/10k

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

What it meant

quattŭordĕcim — Lewis & Short

quattŭordĕcim (quat-), num. adj.quattuor-decem,

I fourteen: partes, Plin. 2, 14, 11, § 58: sedere in quattuordecim (sc. ordinibus), to sit on the fourteen equestrian seats in the theatre, i. e. to be a knight, Suet. Caes. 39; Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 2; Sen. Ep. 44. —

2 With ordinibus expressed, Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 44; Plin. 33, 2, 8, § 32. — In reverse order: decem quattuor (only in connection with larger numbers), censa ducenta decem quattuor milia hominum, Liv. 29, 37, 6; 28, 38, 5; 34, 10, 4; 34, 52, 7; cf. tredecim.

In the wild

quattuordecim Tacitus, Annales 1.p54
quattuordecim Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 p26
quattuordecim Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.34.52.7
quattuordecim Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae val2.10.48
quattuordecim Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.2.p2
quattuordecim Tacitus, Annales 14.p12

6 of 73 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.