The corpus record — Latin

sinister

left, on the left-hand side, adverse

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

De Bello Africo 17 · 13.07/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 3 · 10.33/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 3 · 4.96/10k
Hamartigenia 3 · 4.69/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Cathemerina 3 · 4.08/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 4 · 3.84/10k
De Bello Civili 12 · 3.72/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k

Densest 12 of 69 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. sinister — de Vaan

left, on the left-hand side, adverse

2. sĭnister — Lewis & Short

Left

3. sinister — Walde–Hofmann

tra, -trum (zur Synkope s

Attestations

sinistro Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.11.17
sinistrum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.24
sinistrum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.37
sinistris Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.1.13
sinistro Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.3.4
sinistrum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.7.12

6 of 319 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan pp. 580-581; entry #1642 Review: Under source audit
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Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 652; entry #10796 Review: Under source audit
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan p. 1450; entry #2629 Review: Under source audit
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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.