The corpus record — Latin
saeuus
saeuus
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 11.48/10k
- Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 8.65/10k
- Punica 48 · 6.29/10k
- De consolatione philosophiae 9 · 3.66/10k
- Elegiae 4 · 3.24/10k
- Suasoriae 3 · 2.92/10k
- Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
- Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 2 · 1.2/10k
- Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
- Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
- Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
- Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k
Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
In the wild
- saeuas Silius Italicus, Punica 3.554
- saeua Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.8.2
- saeua Silius Italicus, Punica 15.375
- saeua Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.15
- saeua Silius Italicus, Punica 1.463
- saeuum Silius Italicus, Punica 11.181
6 of 88 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. saevus (scan p. 548; entry #1525). Root candidates: *saiwo-, *saitu-, *saiuo-.
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. saeuus (scan p. 612; entry #10028).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. saevus (scan pp. 1368-1369; entry #2367). Root candidates: *saituro-, *sai-, *sei-.
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