The corpus record — Latin

velocitas

velocitas · f

swiftness

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Where it lives

Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 3 · 5.44/10k
De Providentia 2 · 4.89/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 2 · 3.24/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 3 · 2.88/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 2 · 1.58/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
De Beneficiis 7 · 1.54/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 4 · 1.52/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 11 · 1.48/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 3 · 1.4/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vēlōcĭtas — Lewis & Short

vēlōcĭtas, ātis, f.velox,

I swiftness, fleetness, speed, rapidity, velocity.

I Lit.: velocitate ad cursum valere, Cic. Off. 1, 30, 107: pernicitatem et velocitatem, id. Tusc. 5, 15, 45: velocitas corporis celeritas appellatur, id. ib. 4, 13, 31; Caes. B. G. 6, 28; Hirt. B. G. 8, 36; 8, 48; Quint. 2, 16, 13; 2, 20, 9; Nep. Epam. 2, 3: illa in rebus moliendis velocitas, Curt. 5, 7, 1; 5, 8, 2: velocitate opus est, quā celeritatem famae antecedas, id. 7, 2, 15.—In plur.: non viribus aut velocitatibus aut celeritate corporum res magnae geruntur, sed, etc., Cic. Sen. 6, 17.—

II Trop. (so perh. only post-Aug.): velocitas cogitationum animique celeritas, Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 52: animi exercitata studio, Quint. 5, 10, 123: mali, Tac. A. 15, 38: occasionum, id. H. 1, 83: sagacitatis, Val. Max. 7, 3, 4.—Of speech, style, rapidity: immortalis illa Sallustii, Quint. 10, 1, 102; 9, 4, 83; 10, 7, 8.

In the wild

velocitatem Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.41.6.15
velocitate Pliny the Younger, Letters 9.6.2
velocitatis Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae 10.8.5
velocitate Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.34.14
velocitate Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.9.1
velocitate Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 66

6 of 139 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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