Tănăquil — Lewis & Short
Tănăquil, īlis, f.,
I the proud, imperious wife of the elder Tarquin, Liv. 1, 34; Plin. 36, 27, 70, § 204.—Hence, as an appellative, for a domineering, ambitious woman, Juv. 6, 566; Aus. Ep. 23, 31.
The corpus record — Latin
Tanaquil
Tanaquil · f
the proud
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
- Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 6 · 3.44/10k
- Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
- Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
- Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
- Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
- Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
- Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
- Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
- Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
- Ab urbe condita 6 · 0.12/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Tanaquil Ausonius, Parentalia 30.5
- Tanaquil Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.1.6.1
- Tanaquil Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1.6.1
- Tanaquil Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.566
- Tanaquil Silius Italicus, Punica 13.818
- Tanaquil Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.34.4
6 of 22 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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.