The corpus record — Latin

reatus

reatus · m

the condition of an accused person

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
De idolatria 3 · 4.35/10k
De Spectaculis 2 · 3.14/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕātus — Lewis & Short

rĕātus, ūs, m.reus.

I Lit., the condition of an accused person, a state of impeachment (a word first used by Messala, acc. to Quint. 8, 3, 34): revocato ad reatum Alcibiade, Just. 4, 4, 4: si diutino tempore aliquis in reatu fuerit ... qui longo tempore in reatu agunt, Dig. 48, 19, 25; Mart. 2, 24, 1.—

II Meton.

A An offence of which one stands accused, a charge, App. M. 7, p. 191, 31; 3, p. 132, 10; Prud. Cath. 11.—

B The dress or appearance of an accused person: mulier reatu mirāque tristitie deformis, App. M. 9, p. 231, 3.—

III Trop., guilt (late Lat.): reatus sanguinis, Vulg. Deut. 21, 8; cf. id. Exod. 32, 35: praeteriit actu manet reatu, Aug. cont. Jul. Pelag. 6, 19, 60.

In the wild

reatu Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.17.p4
reatus Tertullian, De Paenitentia 3
reatu Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 33.1
reatus Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.703
reatum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.13
reatum Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 117.1

6 of 53 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.