The corpus record — Latin

vita

life

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 2 · 103.09/10k
Epicedion in Patrem 3 · 79.16/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 31 · 50.15/10k
Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 1 · 47.39/10k
Parentalia 11 · 42.32/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 5 · 37.91/10k
Eclogarum Liber 10 · 36.52/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 3 · 35.29/10k
Helius 4 · 27.89/10k
De Vita Beata 20 · 27.53/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 6 · 25.92/10k
De Otio 5 · 25.5/10k

Densest 12 of 266 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. vīta — Lewis & Short

life

2. vita — Walde–Hofmann

3. vitá- — Walde–Hofmann

willkommen'* I 714 viá- „gewunden‘ II 786 vitá- „gerade“ II 779 viti- I 714 vith

Attestations

vitae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.1.7
vitae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.4
vitae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.9.7
vitamque Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.10.12
vitae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.3
vitam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.1.3

6 of 3,374 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 767; entry #12799 Review: Under source audit
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan p. 1718; entry #3295 Review: Under source audit

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