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scrinium

scrinium · n

a case

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Where it lives

Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Alexander Severus 3 · 2.81/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Epigrammata 6 · 1.07/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

scrīnĭum — Lewis & Short

scrīnĭum, ii, n.scribo.

I Lit., a case, chest, or box for keeping books, papers, letters, etc.; a book-box, letter-case, escritoir (not in Cic.; syn.: capsa, cista): Flaccum praetorem scrinium cum litteris, quas a legatis acceperat, codem afferre jubet, Sall. C. 46, 6: epistularum, Sen. Ira, 2, 23, 4; Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94: vigil calamum et chartas et scrinia posco, book-boxes, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 113; id. S. 1, 1, 120; Ov. P. 1, 1, 24; id. Tr. 1, 1, 106; Cat. 14, 17; Juv. 6, 257; Mart. 1, 3, 4; 1, 67, 6; 4, 33, 1; 6, 64, 10; Val. Max. 6, 5, 6 al.—Under the later emperors there were four kinds of public scrinia, namely, memoriae, epistularum, libellorum, and epistularum Graecarum, Cod. Th. 6, 26; Cod. Just. 12, 19; cf. Salmas. Lampr. Alex. Sev. 31.—

II Transf., a case or casket, in gen.: unguentorum, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 108; 13, 1, 1, § 3.

In the wild

scrinium Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.6.2
scrinia Martial, Epigrammata 4.33.1
scrinii Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.XIII.p2
scrinia Seneca, De Ira 2.23.4
scriniis Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 9
scrinio Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum praefatio.p4

6 of 44 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. scrinium (scan p. 629; entry #10379).

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