The corpus record — Latin

Scaurus2

deformed at the feet; cognomen

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Where it lives

Pro M. Scauro 13 · 43.76/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Pro Fonteio 5 · 11.02/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 3 · 7.68/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 2 · 5.64/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Jugurtha 10 · 4.71/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 7 · 3.81/10k
Brutus 8 · 3.19/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 2 · 2.66/10k

Densest 12 of 51 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. scaurus — de Vaan

scaurus 'deformed at the feet; cognomen' [adj. o/a] (Cic,+) Derivatives: scauripeda 'deformed at the feet' (Varro). No etymology. The isolated comparison«with (late Vedic) Skt. khora- 'limping, lame' is inconclusive. According to EM, GrT σκαϋρος 'with deviating hoof has been borrowed from Latin. BibL:WHII:491,EM600. scelus, -eris 'curse, crime' [n, r] (PL+) Derivatives: scelestus 'doom-laden, wicked' (PL+), … — [de Vaan, s.v. scaurus, p. 558]

2. Scaurus — Lewis & Short

Scaurus, i, m.1. scaurus,

I a frequent surname in the gens Aemilia and Aurelia. So, M. Aemilius Scaurus, whom Cicero defended in an oration, part of which is still extant.—Hence, Scaurĭānus, a, um, adj., relating to Scaurus: oratio, Mart. Cap. 5, § 441.

In the wild

Scaurum Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.7.8
Scauro Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.1.11
Scauro Cicero, De Officiis 1.108.p1
Scaurorum Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.604
Scaurum Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 1.9.16
Scaurus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.15.4

6 of 203 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. scaurus (scan p. 558; entry #1562). Root candidates: *skwh2el-, *skhtel-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. scaurus (scan p. 624; entry #10291).

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