The corpus record — Latin

Tarsus

Tarsus · f

the capital of Cilicia

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Where it lives

Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Res Gestae 7 · 0.55/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 6 · 0.52/10k
Letters to Atticus 6 · 0.49/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Tarsus — Lewis & Short

Tarsus, i, f.,

I the capital of Cilicia, now Tersoos, Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 1; id. Att. 5, 20, 3; Luc. 3, 225; Auct. B. Alex. 66. — Hence, Tarsensis, e, adj., of or belonging to Tarsus: pelagus, Col. 8, 16 fin.— Subst.: Tarsenses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Tarsus, Cic. Fam. 12, 13, 4; id. Att. 5, 21, 7.

In the wild

Tarsum Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.20.2
Tarsum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.9.13
Tarsi Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 2.17.1
Tarso Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.6
Tarsum Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.16.4
Tarsum Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.21.11

6 of 34 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.