The corpus record — Latin

sagittarius

sagittarius · adj

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Where it lives

De Bello Africo 13 · 10/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 6.74/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
De Bello Civili 16 · 4.95/10k
Maximini Duo 2 · 3.69/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 6 · 3.67/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 2 · 3.49/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k
Jugurtha 5 · 2.36/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 16 · 2.16/10k
Res Gestae 20 · 1.57/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

săgittārĭus — Lewis & Short

săgittārĭus, a, um, adj.sagitta.

I Of or belonging to an arrow, arrow-: calamus, good for making arrows, Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 166: certamen, with arrows, Dict. Cret. 4, 19.—

II Subst.: săgittārĭus, ii, m.

A An archer, bowman, a sort of light-armed troops, both foot and horse; usually in the plur., Caes. B. G. 2, 7; 2, 10; 2, 19; 7, 31; Sall. J. 46, 7; Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 18; id. Att. 5, 20, 5; id. Fam. 15, 4, 10; Amm. 29, 5, 22.—In sing., collect.: levis armatura cum equite sagittario, Tac. A. 2, 16 fin.; 13, 40.—

B săgittārii, ōrum, m., arrow-makers, arrow-smiths, Dig. 50, 6, 7.—

C The constellation Sagittarius, or the Archer (otherwise called Arcitenens], Cic. Arat. 525; Hyg. Fab. 124; id. Astr. 2, 27; 3, 26; Plin. 17, 24, 36, § 215; 30, 11, 29, § 97.

In the wild

sagittariorum Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 6.4.p2
sagittariisque Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 2.19.4
sagittariis Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.45.3
sagittarii Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.40.9
sagittariorum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.5.24
sagittariorum Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 3.3.24

6 of 149 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.