1. tau — Lewis & Short
tau, n.indecl., a Celtic word of unknown meaning, Verg. Cat. ap.
Quint. 8, 3, 28; cf. Aus. Idyll. 12, 6.The corpus record — Latin
tau
tau · n
a Celtic word of unknown meaning, Verg. Cat. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 28; cf. Aus. Idyll. 12, 6
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
- Adversus Judaeos Liber 2 · 1.78/10k
- Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
- Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
- Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
- Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
What it meant
2. tau — Lewis & Short
tau, n.indecl.,
I the name of the Greek T, Aus. Idyll. Lit. Monos. 18:
et signa tau super frontes virorum gementium,Vulg. Ezech. 9, 4 (al. thau).
In the wild
- Tau Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.22
- tau Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.3.23
- Tau Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 11
- Tau Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 11
- tau Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.6.13
- tau Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.3.27
6 of 9 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.