The corpus record — Latin

seminecis

seminecis · adj

half-dead

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Where it lives

de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Argonautica 4 · 1.08/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Aeneid 5 · 0.79/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Res Gestae 6 · 0.47/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sēmĭ-nĕcis — Lewis & Short

sēmĭ-nĕcis, is (adj.nex,

nom. does not occur),

I half-dead (not ante-Aug.; syn. semivivus): alicui semineci rapere arma, Verg. A. 10, 462: seminecem eum ad Cannas in acervo caesorum corporum inventum, Liv. 23, 15; so, seminecem, id. 29, 2 fin.; Verg. A. 5, 275; Ov. Tr. 5, 9, 19: vita, Sil. 10, 456: semineces, Verg. A. 9, 455; 12, 329: artus, Ov. M. 1, 228: crines, Val. Fl. 6, 176; Tac. Agr. 36; id. H. 3, 28: seminecum, Sil. 4, 164; 6, 11.

In the wild

seminecem Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.23.15.8
seminecem Vergil, Aeneid 5.275
semineces Vergil, Aeneid 12.329
semineces Tacitus, De Vita Iulii Agricolae 36.2
semineci Vergil, Aeneid 10.462
seminecem Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.252

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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