The corpus record — Latin

uxor

a wife

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Where it lives

Casina 68 · 87.57/10k
Ab urbe condita, fragments 1 · 47.62/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 18 · 46.08/10k
De Regibus 2 · 45.15/10k
Hecyra 39 · 43.27/10k
Menaechmi 41 · 43.15/10k
De Monogamia 30 · 42.96/10k
Cimon 2 · 37.31/10k
Andria 33 · 33.5/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 70 · 32.65/10k
Asinaria 26 · 32.18/10k
Mercator 27 · 31.52/10k

Densest 12 of 217 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. uxor — Lewis & Short

uxor, ōris (for the form VXSOR in inscrr.

I v. the letter X), f. etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. vaca, wife, a wife, spouse, consort (syn. conjux).

I Lit.: licuit uxorem dotatam ducere, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 86: duxit me uxorem liberorum sibi quaesendūm gratia, Enn. ap. Fest. s. v. quaeso, p. 258 (Trag. v. 161 Vahl.); so very freq. ducere uxorem, v. duco: uxorem adjungere, Cic. Fin. 3, 20, 68: ridicule illud L. Nasica censori Catoni, cum ille Ex tui animi sententiā tu uxorem habes? Non hercle, inquit, ex animi mei sententiā, id. de Or. 2, 64, 260: erus, quantum audio, uxore excidit, must go without a wife, Ter. And. 2, 5, 12; 1, 3, 11: quod tu dicis, mea uxor, non te mihi irasci decet, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 24.—On the legal condition of Roman married women, v. Rein, Röm. Privatr. p. 182 sq.; Dict. of Antiq. s. v. uxor.—

II Transf.

A Of animals: olentis uxores mariti, i. e. she-goats, Hor. C. 1, 17, 7.—

B Humorously, of the cloak (abolla) as inseparable from the poor man, Mart. 4, 53, 5.

2. uxor — Walde–Hofmann

uxor, -öris f. „die rechtmäßige Gattin“ (die plautin. Nbf. voxor hat keine Gewähr, s. Koch NJb. 101, 283.685, andere Lit. hei Wiedemann BB. 27,215) (seit Liv. Andr., Enn., Naev., Plaut., Ter., Lucil., Cic. usw., rom.). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. uxor, p. 1757]

In the wild

uxor Plautus, Trinummus 1.2
uxor Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 7.5
uxor Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.45
uxorem Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 125
uxorem Tacitus, Historiae 3.78
uxore Suetonius, Nero 6.4

6 of 2,003 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. uxor (scan pp. 782-783; entry #13053). Root candidates: *euk-, *uk-, *swe-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. uxor (scan p. 1757; entry #3367).

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