The corpus record — Latin

rumor

noise, rumour

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Verus 3 · 14.58/10k
Divus Titus 2 · 13.44/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 3 · 7.68/10k
de Bello Gothico 3 · 7.44/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 3 · 6.91/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Divus Vespasianus 2 · 6.25/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
Historiae 28 · 5.44/10k
Annales 45 · 5.06/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 5 · 4.56/10k

Densest 12 of 112 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. rumor — de Vaan

noise, rumour

2. rūmor — Lewis & Short

the talk of the many

Attestations

rumores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.1.6
rumores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.2.9
rumore Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.5.3
rumoribus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.4
rumorum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.3.3
rumores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.4

6 of 428 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 543; entry #1507 Review: Under source audit
OCR root-candidate values are withheld pending source verification, rights review, and scholarly review. No root, reconstruction, cognate, or historical relationship is asserted here.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 595; entry #9755 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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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.