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tiro1

tiro1 · m

a newly-levied soldier

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Where it lives

De Bello Africo 17 · 13.07/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Maximini Duo 2 · 3.69/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 5 · 3.4/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Letters to Atticus 41 · 3.33/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 2 · 3.3/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 26 · 2.23/10k

Densest 12 of 59 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tīro — Lewis & Short

tīro, ōnis, m.; in milit. lang.,

I a newly-levied soldier, a young soldier, recruit.

I Lit.: aetas tironum, Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: legio tironum, Caes. B. C. 3, 28; 3, 29; 3, 34; Auct. B. Afr. 31, 7; Suet. Tib. 42; id. Ner. 19; id. Vit. 15.—Trop.: multaque tironi non patienda feret (opp. vetus miles), Ov. A. A. 3, 566.—Esp., in appos. like an adj.: tirones milites (opp. veterani), Cic. Phil. 11, 15, 39: miles, Auct. B. Afr. 16, 1: exercitus, Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 2; Liv. 21, 39, 3; 21, 43, 14.—

II Transf., in gen., a beginner, tiro in any thing: nullā in re tiro ac rudis, Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 218: provinciae rudis et tiro, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17: homo non aetate sed usu forensi atque exercitatione tiro, id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 47; id. Rosc. Am. 6, 17: in scholis exercitati, tirones in foro, Quint. 2, 10, 9: deductus in forum tiro, as a young man, after putting on the toga virilis, Suet. Ner. 7; Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 194; Ov. F. 3, 787: tirones gladiatorum, Suet. Caes. 26; for which, adject.: tirones gladiatores, Auct. B. Afr. 71, 1.—Of animals: ut tironem (bovem) cum veterano adjungant, Varr. R. R. 1, 20, 2.

2. Tīro — Lewis & Short

Tīro, ōnis, m.,

I a Roman proper name. So esp., M. Tullius Tiro, the learned freedman of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 16, 10; id. Att. 6, 7, 2; 9, 17, 2 (to him are addressed the letters id. Fam. 16, 3-10; 16, 12-15); Gell. 7, 3, 8; 13, 9, 1 sq.—Hence, Tīrōnĭ-ānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tiro: liber, Gell. 13, 20, 16: Tironiana cura, id. 1, 7, 1.

3. tirö — Walde–Hofmann

tirö, -Onis m, junger Soldat, Rekrut; Anfänger, Neuling, Lehrling", spätl. „Knecht, appe, Held" (seit Cic., ebenso Cogn. Tiro), tirunculus, -à (seit Sen.) und tiruncula, -ae , Anfünger(in)^ (seit Colum.) tirücinium, -i n. ,Rekrutendienst; die Rekruten; Probestück, Unerfahrenheit" (seit Liv., gebildet wie latrücinium), tirönätus, -2s „Rekrutendienst“ (Cod. Theod.): wohl entl. aus gr. *reipwv (Stowasser Wb. s. v.). . … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tirö, p. 1593]

In the wild

Tironi Cicero, Philippicae 8.26
tiro Suetonius, Nero 7.2.p2
Tiro Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 16.10.1
tironem Suetonius, Galba 6.3
tironumque Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 p15
Tironem Cicero, Letters to Atticus 15.15.4

6 of 226 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tirö (scan p. 1593; entry #3027).

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