The corpus record — Latin

vicus

vicus · m

a row of houses

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Where it lives

Parentalia 4 · 15.39/10k
Maximini Duo 5 · 9.22/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 7 · 5.54/10k
Epistularum 5 · 5.5/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 3 · 5.44/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 9 · 5.31/10k
Epistulae 5 · 5.05/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 5 · 4.69/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 5 · 4.33/10k

Densest 12 of 122 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vīcus — Lewis & Short

vīcus, i, m.Sanscr. vēcas, vēcman, house; Gr. oi)=kos; O. H. Germ. wīch, village; and Engl. -wick or -wich, as in Berwick, Norwich.

I Collectively, a row of houses in town or country, a quarter of a city, a street, Cic. Mil. 24, 64; Caes. B. C. 1, 27; Hor. S. 2, 3, 228; id. Ep. 1, 20, 18; 2, 1, 269; Ov. F. 6, 610 al.—

II A village, hamlet, a country-seat: si quis Cobiamacho, qui vicus inter Tolosam et Narbonem est, deverterentur, Cic. Font. 5, 9; Caes. B. G. 1, 5; 2, 7; 4, 4; Liv. 38, 30, 7; Tac. G. 12; Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 5; Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 8; 1, 15, 7; 2, 2, 177 al.

2. vicus — Walde–Hofmann

vicus (dial. vecus CIL. 1? 1806, s. Ernout El. dial. lat. 242), -1 m, „Häusergruppe, Dorf, Flecken, Stadtviertel“ (seit Cato, rom.); sied- ^üs, -a, -um „auf dem Dorfe wohnend*, -us, -j m. „Dorfbewohner* (seit Cic. und Lex. agr. CIL. 1? 585, 11, rom.; vicüneus -a, um Cod. Just. usw.); ricatim „straßenweise* (seit Sisenna und Cic.); viculus, -i m. „kleines Dorf* (Cic); vzeinus, -a, um „aufs Dorf Vidasus — vidélicet, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vicus, p. 1690]

In the wild

vice Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.45.p2
vice Horace, Epodon 13.8
vicis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.90.9
vice Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.13.7
vicus Horace, Epistulae 1.15.7
vice Prudentius, Cathemerina 3.161

6 of 495 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. uicus (scan p. 756; entry #12622).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vicus (scan pp. 1690-1691; entry #3243). Root candidates: *yeiknö-, *ueik-, *yeik-.

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