LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

Sancus

Sancus · m

a deity of the Sabines

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

What it meant

1. Sancus — Lewis & Short

Sancus, i, m.,

I a deity of the Sabines, also worshipped at Rome; the same as Dius Fidius and Semo, Varr. L. L. 5, § 66 Müll.; Ov. F. 6, 213 sq.; Liv. 8, 20; 32, 1; Prop. 4 (5), 9, 74 (Müll. sanctus); Sil. 8, 422; Fest. s. v. praedia, p. 238 Müll.; id. s. v. propter, p. 229 ib.; Lact. 1, 15, 8; Aug. Civ. Dei, 18, 19; and v. Semo.

2. Sancus — Walde–Hofmann

Sancus, -i m. und -Zs m. „Schwurgott und Eideshelfer“ (seit Varro, Adj. Senqualis avis, porto seit Liv., Fest. p. 3, 317, vgl. Cogn. Sanquinius seit CIL. I? 387, vgl. u. Sanàio- 'Sancius", Sage ds., Schulze EN.467,473, Devoto Mél,Pedersen 223): — zusacer, sanciö (Kretschmer Gl. 10,155, v. Blumenthal WaG. 2,19: Sémoó Sanctus das sabinische Synonym von Dius Fidius). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Sancus, p. 1380]

In the wild

Where it came from

  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Sancus (scan p. 616; entry #10133).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Sancus (scan p. 1380; entry #2409).

Downloads

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.