The corpus record — Latin

raritas

raritas · f

the state of being loose

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

Where it lives

De Cultu Feminarum 4 · 7.81/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
De Architectura 21 · 3.64/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Divus Augustus 3 · 2.24/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Naturalis Historia 16 · 0.4/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rārĭtas — Lewis & Short

rārĭtas, ātis, f.id.,

I the state of being loose or not dense, looseness of texture, distance apart (good prose).

I Lit.: in pulmonibus inest raritas quaedam et assimilis spongiis mollitudo ad hauriendum spiritum aptissima, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136: dentium, Quint. 11, 3, 55: (asini) nec pontes transeunt, per raritatem eorum translucentibus fluviis, Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 169.—In plur.: foraminum raritates, Vitr. 2, 5: venarum, id. 8, 3.—

II Transf., small number, fewness, rarity: capillorum, thinness, Suet. Oth. 12; cf. superciliorum, Plin. 28, 11, 46, § 163: stellarum (opp. multitudo), id. 2, 18, 16, § 80: remanentium (hominum), Suet. Aug. 43: exemplorum, Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 58; cf. Cels. 7, 14: raritas dictorum distinguet oratorem a scurrā, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 247; cf. figurarum, Quint. 9, 3, 27: lavandi, Suet. Aug. 82: in raritate videre, Lampr. Elag. 28. —

b Concr., a rarity: Alexandro equi magna raritas contigit, Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 154.— In plur.: raritates, Gell. 3, 16, 9.

In the wild

raritates Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.9.8
raritates Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.9.9
raritate Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.42.1
raritatem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.34.p1
raritate Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum 1.7
raritates Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.10.2

6 of 65 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.