The corpus record — Latin

vecordia

frenzy

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Where it lives

Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Jugurtha 4 · 1.88/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. vecordia — de Vaan

vecordia 'frenzy' (Ter.+); praecordia, -drum Mower part of the chest, body-parts in that area' (P1.+); recordan 'to call to mind' (P1.+). Pit *kord, *kordo/es. PEE nom.sg. *kerd, gen.sg- *krd-o/es 'heart'. IE cognates: Olr. cride 'heart', W. craidd (< PCI *kred-jo-); Hit. oms>ker I kard(i)- [n.] 'heart, center', Pal. /cart-, CLuw. zart-, HLuw. zart(i)- < *ker, gen. *krdios, Skt. hfd- 'heart', nom.sg. hardU Gr, κήρ, … — [de Vaan, s.v. vecordia, p. 149]

2. vēcordia — Lewis & Short

vēcordia, ae, f.vecors,

I want of reason, senselessness, silliness, folly; madness, insanity (not in Cic.): tanta vecordia innata cuiquam, Ter. And. 4, 1, 2: prorsus in facie voltuque vecordia inerat, Sall. C. 15, 5: alicui vecordiam objectare, id. J. 94, 4; cf.: studia plena vecordiae, Tac. A. 3, 50: formidine quasi vecordiā exagitari, Sall. J. 72, 2; 99, 3: plurima vecordia constantiam exemerat, Tac. A. 1, 32; 4, 22 fin.; Ov. M. 12, 227: mentes vatum in vecordiam vertere, Just. 24, 6, 9: egregie homo improbus atque immani vecordiā, Gell. 20, 1, 13; 12, 1, 8.

In the wild

vecordia Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.6.p2
vecordiae Sallust, Jugurtha 3.p3
vecordia Terence, Andria 4.1
vecordia Historia Augusta, Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 3
vecordia Sallust, Jugurtha 70
vecordia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.6.8

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. vecordia (scan p. 149; entry #331).

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