The corpus record — Latin

thronus

thronus · m

an elevated seat

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Where it lives

Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Adversus Marcionem 4 · 0.48/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. thrŏnus — Lewis & Short

thrŏnus, i, m., = qro/nos,

I an elevated seat, a throne (syn. solium): Jovis, Plin. 35, 9, 36, § 63; Poët. ap. Suet. Aug. 70: dei, Prud. Hamart. 10 praef.; Auct. Pervig. Ven. 7: Thronos Caesaris, one of the constellations, Plin. 2, 70, 71, § 178.—

II An angelic order: sive throni, sive dominationes, Vulg. Col. 1, 16.

2. thronus — Walde–Hofmann

thronus, -3 m. ,erhabener Sitz, Thron* (seit Suet., rom): — entl. aus gr. Opóvoc ds. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. thronus, p. 1587]

In the wild

throno Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.9.p4
thronon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.70.p2
throno Tertullian, De Carne Christi 21
throno Tertullian, De Patientia 15
throno Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.196
thronum Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.13

6 of 17 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. thronus (scan pp. 714-715; entry #11856).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. thronus (scan p. 1587; entry #3004).

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