The corpus record — Latin

saltatio

saltatio · f

a dancing

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Where it lives

Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
Institutio Oratoria 7 · 0.41/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

saltātĭo — Lewis & Short

saltātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a dancing; concr., a dance, Quint. 1, 11, 18 sq.; 2, 18, 1; Scipio Afric. ap. Macr. S. 2, 10: multarum deliciarum comes est extrema saltatio, Cic. Mur. 6, 13; id. Brut. 62, 225; id. Fin. 3, 7, 24; Quint. 11, 3, 128; Suet. Tit. 7 al.—Plur., Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 11.

In the wild

saltationes Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.2.8
saltationi Cicero, Brutus 225.p1
saltationis Petronius, Satyricon 53
saltatio Cicero, Brutus 225.p1
saltationem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.56.p5
saltationis Suetonius, Divus Titus 7.2.p2

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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