1. sannĭo — Lewis & Short
sannĭo, ōnis, m.sanna,
I one who makes mimicking grimaces, a buffoon (cf. scurra), Cic. de Or. 2, 61, 251; id. Fam. 9, 16, 10; Amm. 14, 6, 16.
The corpus record — Latin
Sannio
Sannio · m
one who makes mimicking grimaces
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Adelphi 53 · 53.55/10k
- Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
- De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
- Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
- Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
2. sanniö — Walde–Hofmann
sanniö, -ónis m. „Grimassenschneider, Hanswurst* (seit Cic. [spätl. z. T. vermischt mit gannéo, Goldberger Cl. 20, 112), sannärı „durch Crimassen verspotten* Gramm. [Komp.: de- Porph., sub- seit Tert.]; sannätor Non.: Lw. aus gr. odvväc (vgl. sanna ,Grimasse* seit Tert), oavvíwv, odvvopoc inton, Whatmough PID. II 430), zu calvw, ursprgl „derjenige, der durch das odvviov (Hes) gekennzeichnet ist* (vgl. Sonny ALL. 10, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sanniö, p. 1381]
In the wild
- SANNIO Terence, Adelphi 2.4
- Sannio Terence, Adelphi front.subject_2
- SANNIO Terence, Adelphi 2.2
- Sannio Terence, Adelphi front.subject_2
- Sannio Terence, Eunuchus 4.7
- SANNIO Terence, Adelphi 2.1
6 of 58 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sanniö (scan p. 1381; entry #2417).
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