The corpus record — Latin

veternus

veternus · adj

of great age

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Where it lives

Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vĕternus — Lewis & Short

vĕternus, a, um, adj.vetus,

I of great age, old, ancient (only post-class.).

I Adj.: rupes, Fulg. Myth. 1 praef.: silentia, Prud. Cath. 9, 68.—

II Subst.: vĕter-nus, i, m. *

A Old age, age, Stat. Th. 6, 94.—

B Old dirt (post-Aug. and very rare), Col. 4, 24, 6; App. M. 9, p. 223.—

C Lethargy, somnolence (as a disease of aged people).

1 Lit.: num eum veternus aut aqua intercus tenet? Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3.—Of the deep, long sleep or torpidity of bears, Plin. 8, 36, 54, § 127.—

2 Trop., drowsiness, dulness, sluggishness, sloth (freq., but not in Cic.), Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 4 (cited ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3); Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 10; Verg. G. 1, 124; Cat. 17, 24; Col. 7, 5, 3; 7, 10, 4; App. Flor. 3, p. 357.

2. vĕternus — Lewis & Short

vĕternus, i, v. 1. veternus, II.

In the wild

veterni Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.19.1
veternus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 8.6.4
veternum Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.596
ueterno Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.5
veterno Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.7
veternus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 2.13.3

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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