The corpus record — Latin

scelerus

scelerus · adj

wicked

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

Where it lives

In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k
Argonautica 4 · 1.08/10k
Pharsalia 5 · 0.98/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

scĕlĕrus — Lewis & Short

scĕlĕrus, a, um, adj.id.,

I wicked, abominable: sinapis, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 28: caput, id. ib. 5, 1, 3; cf. Serv Verg. A. 9, 486.

In the wild

scelerumque Statius, Thebais 11.340
scelerumque Lucan, Pharsalia 4.236
scelerumque Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 4.P5
scelerumque Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.133
scelerumque Statius, Thebais 4.212
scelerique Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.322

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

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.