The corpus record — Latin

teruncius

teruncius · m

three twelfths of an

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

Where it lives

de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ter-uncĭus — Lewis & Short

ter-uncĭus, ii, m. (sc. nummus) [uncia].

I Lit., three twelfths of an as, a quarter - as, Varr. L. L. 5, § 174 Müll.; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 45.—

2 Transf., a trifle: sic in provinciā nos gerimus, ut nullus teruncius insumatur in quemquam, i. q. not a farthing, not a cent, Cic. Att. 5, 17, 2; 6, 2, 4; id. Fam. 2, 17, 4; id. Fin. 3, 14, 45: non jam teruncii faciunt, Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 17; App. Mag. p. 323, 14.—

II Of inheritances, the fourth part: Curius fecit palam te (heredem) ex libellā, me ex teruncio, Cic. Att. 7, 2, 3.

In the wild

teruncius Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.3.p2
teruncium Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.29.p2
teruncii Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.45

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.