The corpus record — Latin

terrigena

terrigena · comm

born of

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

Where it lives

Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Thebais 9 · 1.44/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Argonautica 4 · 1.08/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

terrĭgĕna — Lewis & Short

terrĭgĕna, ae, comm. (

I neutr. plur. adj.: terrigena animalia, Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 12) [terra-gigno], born of or from the earth, earth-born; a poet. epithet of the first men, Lucr. 5, 1411; 5, 1427; Amm. 19, 8, 11.—Of the men who sprang up from the dragon's teeth which had been sown, Ov. M. 3, 118; 7, 141; id. H. 6, 35; 12, 99, Val. Fl. 7, 505.— Of Typhoeus, Ov. M. 5, 325.—Of the giants, Val. Fl. 2, 18; Sil. 9, 306.—Of the serpent, Sil. 6, 254; Stat. Th. 5, 506.—Of the snail, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133.—Of men in general, Vulg. Psa. 48, 3.

In the wild

terrigenam Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 9.76
terrigenas Statius, Thebais 2.573
terrigenas Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8.450
terrigenae Statius, Thebais 4.556
terrigenae Lucan, Pharsalia 3.316
terrigena Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.12

6 of 38 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.