The corpus record — Latin

tropicus

tropicus · adj

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Where it lives

De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 54.35/10k
Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Eclogarum Liber 3 · 10.96/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

trŏpĭcus — Lewis & Short

trŏpĭcus, a, um, adj., = tropiko/s.

I Lit., of or belonging to a turn or turning, tropical: Capricornus, i. e. where the sun turns back, Aus. Idyll. 16, 7; cf. id. Ecl. de Ratione Diei Anni, 2; Manil. 3, 614.—

II Trop. *

A trŏpĭca, ōrum, n., changes, alterations: pecuniae cupiditas haec tropica instituit, Petr. 88.—

B In the later rhet. lang., figurative, metaphorical, tropical (late Lat.): figura, Gell. 13, 24, 31: locutiones, Aug. contra Mendac. 10.—Adv.: trŏpĭcē, figuratively: loqui maluit, Aug. Genes. ad Lit. 4, 9.

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