The corpus record — Latin

unicornis

unicornis · adj

onehorned

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Where it lives

Adversus Judaeos Liber 3 · 2.67/10k
Adversus Marcionem 4 · 0.48/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ūnĭcornis — Lewis & Short

ūnĭcornis, e, adj.unus-cornu,

I onehorned, having a single horn.

I Adj.: Indici boves, Plin. 8, 21, 30, § 72: animal, id. 11, 46, 106, § 255: rhinoceros, Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 18; id. adv. Jud. 10.—

II Subst., Vulg. Psa. 91, 11.

In the wild

unicornis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.18
unicornis Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 10
unicornis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.18
unicorne Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.46
unicornes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.21.p1
unicornis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.19

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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