The corpus record — Latin

Tiberis

Tiberis · m

The river Tiber

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 11s 1 · 50.51/10k
C. Caligula 18 · 23.58/10k
Annales 156 · 17.55/10k
Tiberius 14 · 15.4/10k
Divus Augustus 19 · 14.17/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Divus Claudius 6 · 9.39/10k
Domitianus 3 · 8.72/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 5 · 8.64/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 14 · 7.86/10k
Apocolocyntosis 2 · 7.38/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 12 · 6.88/10k

Densest 12 of 95 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Tĭbĕris — Lewis & Short

Tĭbĕris, is, also contr., Tibris (Ty-bris), is or ĭdis, m.

I The river Tiber, now Tevere: Tiberis antea Tybris appellatus et prius Albula, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 53; cf. Liv. 1, 3.

(a) Form Tiberis, Mel. 2, 4, 9; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 53; Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 453 Vahl.); Cic. Att. 13, 33, 4; 12, 19, 1; id. Rosc. Am. 35, 100; id. Mil. 15, 41; Liv. 1, 7; 5, 13; 24, 9; 30, 38; Hor. C. 1, 2, 13; 1, 29, 12; 2, 3, 18; id. S. 1, 9, 18; 2, 1, 8; 2, 3, 292; id. Ep. 1, 11, 19. —

(b) Form Tibris (Tybris; only in the poets), Verg A. 2, 782: Tibrim, id. ib. 3, 500: Thybridis, Ov. M. 15, 432; Luc. 6, 810: Tibride, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 127.—Hence,

A Tĭbĕrīnus (Tībrī-nus, Claud. Laud. Seren. 16; Sid. Carm. 7, 75), a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Tiber, Tiberine: ostium, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 33; Verg. A. 1, 13; Ov. F. 4, 329: undae, Hor. C. 3, 12, 7: flumen, Verg. A. 11, 449; Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 4: lupus, taken in the Tiber, id. S. 2, 2, 31: campus, Plin. 34, 6, 11, § 25: gramen, Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 182: pater, i. e. Father Tiber, as a river-god, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 55 Vahl.); Verg. G. 4, 369; cf. deus, id. A. 8, 31.—

2 Subst.: Tĭ-bĕrīnus, i, m.

a The Tiber: hac quondam Tiberinus iter faciebat, Prop. 4 (5), 2, 7. Verg. A. 7, 30; Ov. F. 4, 291; 6, 105.—

b A king of Alba, after whom the river is said to have been named, Varr. L. L. 5, §§ 29 and 71 Müll.; Liv. 1, 3; Ov. F. 2, 389; id. M. 14, 614.—

B Tĭbĕrīnis, ĭdis, adj. f., of or belonging to the Tiber, Tiberine: Nym phae, Ov. F. 2, 597. —

II Personified: Tibris (Tybris), the river-god Tiber, Verg. A. 8, 72; 10, 421.

2. Tiberis — Walde–Hofmann

Tiberis, -is m. (Verg. Ov. Thybris) , Tiber" ; davon Tiberinus, -3 m. „Tiberfluß®, Tiberinis, -idis f. (nymphae) Ov., Tifernus, -i m. und -um, -i n. „Berg bzw. Fluß bzw.Stadtin Umbrien bzw. Samnium*: etruskisch Geprie Tiberius nach Schulze EN. 247; über die - etr.? — Schreibung Thybris s. Meister EN. 70ff. (ebda zur nasalierten Form Ovußpıc, über die anders Fraenkel RE. 32, 1656); über das Nebeneinander von etr. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Tiberis, p. 1588]

In the wild

Tiberium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.22.p1
Tiberim Suetonius, Domitianus 1.2
Tiberim Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.2.13.6
Tiberius Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.4.p2
Tiberium Tacitus, Annales 3.p65
Tiberius Suetonius, Tiberius 26.2

6 of 546 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Tiberis (scan p. 1588; entry #3012).

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