The corpus record — Latin

Rauraci

Rauraci · m

a people of Gaul

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Where it lives

De bello Gallico 4 · 0.78/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Raurăci — Lewis & Short

Raurăci (Raurĭci, ōrum, m.,

Plin. 4, 17, 31, § 106),

I a people of Gaul, on the Rhine, neighbors of the Helvetians, near Basle, Caes. B. G. 1, 5; 6, 25; 7, 75.—Hence,

1 Raurăcum, i, n., the city of the Rauraci, now Augst, near Basle, Amm. 14, 10, 6: Rauriaca colonia, Plin. l. l.; also called Raurĭcum, id. 4, 12, 24, § 79: RAVRICA, Inscr. Orell. 432.—

2 Raurăcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Rauraci: colonia Rauraca = Rauracum, Plin. 4, 17, 31, § 106 (al. Rauriaca).

In the wild

Rauracis Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 7.75.3
Rauracis Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 1.5.3
Rauracis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.8.1
Rauracorum Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 1.29.2
Raurici Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.17
Raurici Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.12.p9

6 of 7 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.