The corpus record — Latin

soror

soror · f

a sister: Th

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

Where it lives

Stichus 40 · 64.43/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 19s 1 · 49.75/10k
Bacchides 33 · 33.45/10k
Parentalia 8 · 30.78/10k
Poenulus 23 · 20.85/10k
Dion 3 · 20.22/10k
Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
Apocolocyntosis 5 · 18.46/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 4 · 18.29/10k
Ibis 7 · 17.81/10k
Commodus Antoninus 6 · 17.32/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 9 · 15.87/10k

Densest 12 of 198 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. sŏror — Lewis & Short

sŏror, ōris, f.Sanscr. svasar; Goth. svister; Germ. Schwester; Engl. sister.

I Lit.

A In gen., a sister: Th. Salve, mea soror. Pl. Frater mi, salve, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 57; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 68 sq.: germana soror, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 42 Vahl.); cf.: mea soror gemina germana, Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 30 sq.; so, germana, Cic. Mil. 27, 73: Jovis, i. e. Juno, Verg. A. 1, 47; Hor. C. 3, 3, 64; Ov. M. 3, 266; id. F. 6, 27 al.: Phoebi, i. e. Luna, id. H. 11, 45; cf. id. F. 3, 110: agnam Aeneas matri Eumenidum magnaeque sorori ferit, i. e. to Nox and Terra, Verg. A. 6, 250: doctae, i. e. the Muses, Tib. 3, 4, 45; Ov. M. 5, 255; called also sorores novem, id. Tr. 5, 12, 45: genitae Nocte, i. e. the Furies, id. M. 4, 451; called also crinitae angue sorores, id. ib. 10, 349; and, vipereae, id. ib. 6, 662: tristes, i. e. the Fates, Tib. 3, 3, 35; called also sorores tres, Prop. 2, 13, 44 (3, 5, 28); Hor. C. 2, 3, 15; Ov. M. 15, 808.—Of beasts: in grege prioris anni sororem equa comitatur, Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 156.—Prov.: bonae mentis soror est paupertas, Petr. 84, 4.—

B In partic., poet.: sorores, the Muses, Prop. 3 (4), 1, 17. the Fates, Cat. 64, 326; Ov. H. 12, 3; 15, 81; Mart. 4, 54, 9; 4, 73, 3; the Danaides, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 67; Ov. H. 14, 15.—

II Transf. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

A A cousin, the daughter of a father's brother, Ov. M. 1, 351.—

B A female friend, playmate, or companion, Verg. A. 1, 321; 11, 823; Tib. 3, 1, 26; Sen. Hippol. 611; Petr. 127; Mart. 2, 4, 3; 12, 20, 2; Inscr. Marin. Iscriz. Alb. p. 60.—In eccl. Lat., female Christians, Vulg. 1, Tim. 5, 2.—

C Of things in pairs, connected together, or alike: obsecro te hanc per dexteram Perque hanc sororem laevam, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 9; so of the hand, Verg. M. 28: abjunctae comae mea fata sorores Lugebant, Cat. 66, 51: sapore caryotarum sorores, Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 45; Mart. 14, 128, 2.—

D Of the word soror: scripta soror fuerat: visum est delere sororem, Ov. M. 9, 528.

2. soror — Walde–Hofmann

soror, -öris f. „Schwester“ (seit Naev., Enn., Plaut., rom., sororcula, -ae f. „Schwesterchen“ seit Plt., soröriculäta (vestis) Plin., soröreclätum Gl, Not. Tir. [Heraeus ALL. 12, 59], sorörius, -a, -um „schwesterlich“ seit Plt, soröriö, -äre Plt. [Scherzbldg., vgl. Fest. p. 296 soröriäre mammae dicuntur puellärum cum primum tuméscunt], sorüricida, -ae m. „Schwestermörder* (vgl. parri-] seit Cic. [-eidium CL]; vgl … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. soror, p. 1469]

In the wild

sorores Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.44
Soror Plautus, Stichus 1.2
sororis Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum index.p9
sororis Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.803
sororesque Tacitus, De Vita Iulii Agricolae 31.1
sororum Martial, Epigrammata 1.76.3

6 of 1,314 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. soror (scan pp. 661-662; entry #10981).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. soror (scan p. 1469; entry #2683). Root candidates: *sge-, *ser-.

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