The corpus record — Latin

Tigris2

Comm

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

Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
Antoninus Pius 2 · 8.91/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.57/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Medea 3 · 5.3/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Phaedra 3 · 4.22/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 3 · 3.96/10k
Carmina 5 · 3.76/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k

Densest 12 of 60 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tī^gris — Lewis & Short

tī^gris, is or ĭdis (

I gen. tigris, Verg. Cir. 136: tigridis, id. A. 11, 577; Ov. M. 11, 245; Val. Fl. 5, 590; 6, 148; acc. tigrim, Verg. A. 9, 730; Manil. 5, 708; Sen. Ep. 85, 35; Plin. 8, 17, 25, § 65; 8, 18, 25, § 66; Sil. 5, 148; Suet. Aug. 43: tigrin, Val. Fl. 6, 704; Stat. Th. 6, 722; abl. tigri, Plin. 6, 20, 23, § 73: tigride, Ov. M. 7, 32; 9, 612; Luc. 5, 405; Sil. 5, 280; Mart. 8, 26, 8; Juv. 15, 163; plur. tigres, Verg. G. 2, 151; id. A. 4, 367; Hor. C. 3, 3, 14; 3, 11, 13; id. A. P. 393; Ov. A. A. 1, 559; id. M. 1, 305; 3, 668; Curt. 9, 8, 2: tigrides, Sol. 15, 11; 27, 16; acc. tigris, Verg. E. 5, 29; id. G. 4, 510; id. A. 6, 805: tigridas, Ov. H. 10, 86; gen. tigrium, Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 7; 11, 2, 1, § 4; dat. and abl. tigribus, Hor. A. P. 13; Ov. H. 2, 80; id. Am. 1, 2, 48), = ti/gris (in Persian, an arrow, Varr. L. L. 5, § 100 Müll.; Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 127). Comm. (in prose masc., but fem. Plin. 8, 4, 5, § 10; 8, 18, 25, § 66; in the poets always fem.; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, 616 sq.), a tiger, tigress.

I Lit.: varius, Varr. l. l.; Mel. 3, 5, 7; Verg. A. 4, 367; 6, 805; id. E. 5, 29; Hor. C. 1, 23, 9; 3, 27, 56; id. Epod. 16, 31; id. A. P. 13.—

II Transf.

1 A tiger-skin: equus, quem discolor ambit Tigris, Stat. Th. 9, 686; 6, 719; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 17. —

2 The name of the spotted tiger-hound of Actæon, Ov. M. 3, 217; Hyg. Fab. 181. —

3 The Tiger, the name of a ship ornamented with the figure of a tiger: Massicus aeratā princeps secat aequora Tigri, Verg. A. 10, 166.

2. Tī^gris — Lewis & Short

Tī^gris, ĭdis, m., = *ti/gris,

I the river Tigris (qs. arrowy, so called from its rapidity), Varr. L. L. 5, § 100 Müll.; Mel. 1, 11, 2; 3, 8, 32; Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 127; Hor. C. 4, 14, 46; Luc. 3, 256; 3, 261 sq.; 8, 370; Curt. 4, 9, 16; Sen. Herc. Fur. 1324.

In the wild

tigres Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.52
Tigridis Lucan, Pharsalia 8.370
tigribus Statius, Thebais 9.16
Tigrim Lucan, Pharsalia 8.214
tigris Silius Italicus, Punica 12.458
Tigridis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.7.4

6 of 232 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. tigris (scan p. 715; entry #11873).

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.