The corpus record — Latin
uestis
uestis
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 25.84/10k
- Appendix Vergiliana 4 · 11.53/10k
- Nero 7 · 8.96/10k
- Vitellius 2 · 8.31/10k
- Elegiae 10 · 8.1/10k
- Divus Julius 7 · 7.18/10k
- Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
- Excerpta Controversiae 9 · 4.2/10k
- C. Caligula 3 · 3.93/10k
- Divus Augustus 5 · 3.73/10k
- Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
- Tiberius 3 · 3.3/10k
Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
In the wild
- ueste Suetonius, Galba 3.4
- ueste Suetonius, Divus Claudius 17.3
- uestis Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 p5
- uestem Appendix Vergiliana, Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 100
- uestem Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.6.13
- uestis Suetonius, Nero 28.2
6 of 158 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uestis (scan p. 753; entry #12574). Root candidates: *westwik-.
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vestis (scan pp. 1683-1684; entry #3229). Root candidates: *au-, *eu-, *yeteso-.
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