The corpus record — Latin

thorax

thorax · m

the breast

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Where it lives

Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

thōrax — Lewis & Short

thōrax, ācis, m. (but f. Treb. Poll. qw/rac,

Claud. 3, 3), =

I the breast, chest, thorax.

I Lit., in anatomy, Cels. 5, 25, 8; Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 49.—

II Transf.

A A defence, armor, or covering for the breast, a breastplate, corselet, cuirass; a doublet, stomacher (syn. lorica), Liv. 4, 20, 7; Suet. Aug. 82; Verg. A. 10, 337; Mart. 7, 1, 1.— Dat. thoracibus, Val. Fl. 3, 87.—Gen. thoracum, Claud. in Ruf. 2, 260.—

B A bust, Treb. Claud. Goth. 3.

In the wild

thorax Statius, Thebais 9.241
thorax Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.13
thorax Statius, Thebais 6.910
thorax Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.186
thorax Silius Italicus, Punica 4.558
thorax Celsus, De Medicina 3.22.p4

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. thorax (scan p. 714; entry #11855).

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