The corpus record — Latin

ve

faulty, far from

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Noctes Atticae 4 · 0.36/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 3 · 0.26/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. ve- — de Vaan

ve- 'faulty, far from' [pref.]: vecors 'mad* (Andr.+), vecordia 'frenzy' (Ter.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. ve-, p. 670]

2. vĕ — Lewis & Short

vĕperh. from same root with vel, volo; but cf. Sanscr. va, or,

I or; leaving the choice free between two things or among several (always enclitic): quid tu es tristis? quidve es alacris? Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 13: telum tormentumve, Caes. B. C. 3, 51; 3, 56: lubidines iracundiaeve, Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60: albus aterve fueris, ignorans, id. Phil. 2, 16, 41: si id facis facturave es, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 13: ne quid plus minusve faxit, id. Phorm. 3, 3, 21: ne quid plus minusve, quam sit necesse, dicat, Cic. Fl. 5, 12: duabus tribusve horis, id. Phil. 14, 6, 16: Appius ad me ex itinere bis terve litteras miserat, id. Att. 6, 1, 2: amici regis duo tresve perdivites sunt, id. ib. 6, 1, 3: cum eam (quercum) tempestas vetustasve consumpserit, id. Leg. 1, 1, 2: alter ambove, etc., id. ib. 5, 19, 53; v. alter: aliquis unus pluresve, id. Rep. 1, 32, 48: ne cui meae Longinquitas aetatis obstet mortemve exspectet meam, Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 20: eho, Mysis, puer hic unde est? quisve huc attulit? id. And. 4, 4, 9: si quando aut regi justo vim populus attulit regnove eum spoliavit, aut, etc., Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65: decretumque, ut consules sortirentur conpararentve inter se, uter, etc., Liv. 24, 10, 2: quae civitates habent legibus sanctum, si quis quid de re publica a finitimis rumore ac famā acceperit, uti ad magistratum deferat, neve cum quo alio communicet, or (sc. it is ordered by law) that he shall not, etc., Caes. B. G. 6, 20.—

2 Esp. in neg. sentences, or questions implying a negat., = -que: nullum (membrum rei publicae) reperies perfecti, quod non fractum debilitatumve sit, Cic Fam. 5, 13, 3; num leges nostras moresve novit? id. Phil. 5, 5, 13.—

B Repeated or with correl. part.

1 Ve ... ve, either ... or (poet.): corpora vertuntur: nec quod fuimusve sumusve, Cras erimus, Ov. M. 15, 215: nullaque laudetur plusve minusve mihi, id. F. 5, 110; id. M. 11, 493: illa tamen se Non habitu mutatve loco, peccatve superne, Hor. S. 2, 7, 64.—

2 Ve ... aut, either ... or (very rare): regnave prima Remi aut animos Carthaginis altae, Prop. 2, 1, 23.

3. vē- — Lewis & Short

vē- (sometimes vae-) [perh. = Sanscr. vi-in-, vi-dha-va; Lat. vidua; but cf.

Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 3809, 135]; an inseparable particle denoting origin,

I out, which serves either to negative the positive idea lying in the simple word, or to strengthen a simple notion: vegrandis, small; vecors, senseless; vepallidus, very pale; ve-stigo, to search out; Vejovis, an anti-Jove; cf. Gell. 5, 12, 9 sqq.

4. ve- — Walde–Hofmann

ve-, ver- I1 617 veadia II 745 Velio- II 826, 830 Veliocasses II 830 Venicarus 11 7983 Veriugodumnus vertragus 1I 698 vicus II 783 — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ve-, p. 1886]

In the wild

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.