The corpus record — Latin

vatius

vatius · adj

bent outwards

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Where it lives

Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6 · 0.5/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

vătĭus — Lewis & Short

vătĭus, a, um, adj.,

I bent outwards: (canes) sint cruribus rectis et potius varis quam vatiis, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4; hence, of persons with legs bent out wards, bowlegged: quaesitum est, an balbus et blaesus ... et varus et vatius sanus sit, Dig. 21, 1, 10 fin.; Mart. 12, 70, 1.—Subst.: vătĭa, ae, m., a bowlegged man: imitari vatias, Varr. L. L. 9, § 10 Müll.; cf. Plin. 11, 45, 105, § 204.

In the wild

Vatiae Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.55.2
vatium Celsus, De Medicina 8.20.p2
vatiam Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 2.3.5
Vatia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.55.7
vatium Cicero, De Divinatione 1.115.p2
Vatia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.55.4.p1

6 of 11 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. uatius (scan p. 739; entry #12350).

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