The corpus record — Latin

trutina

trutina · f

a balance

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Where it lives

De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 54.35/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

trŭtĭna — Lewis & Short

trŭtĭna, ae, f.truta/nh,

I a balance, pair of scales (cf.: lanx, statera).

I Lit., Varr. L. L. 5, § 183 Müll.; id. ap. Non. 180, 32: ex trutinis quae staterae dicuntur, Vitr. 10, 8.—

II Trop.: ad ea probanda quae non aurificis staterā, sed quādam populari trutinā examinantur, * Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159: Romani pensantur eādem Scriptores trutinā, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 30; id. S. 1, 3, 72: aliā parte in trutinā suspendit Homerum, Juv. 6, 437: examenve inprobum in illā castiges trutinā, Pers. 1, 7.

In the wild

trutinam Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.7.p2
trutina Cicero, De Oratore 2.159
trutina Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.3.72
trutina Horace, Epistulae 2.1.30
trutina Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 9.245
trutina Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.437

6 of 15 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. trutina (scan p. 729; entry #12143).

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