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vitricus

stepfather

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Where it lives

Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Letters 3 · 0.46/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vitricus — de Vaan

vitricus 'stepfather' [m. o] (CIL 1.583, Cic.+) WH and IEW derive vitricus from PIE *(d)ui-tero- 'second, other' (as attested in Ilr., Germanic, Slavic), but this does not explain long 11 have no other solution. BibL: WH II: 805, EM 742, IEW 1175f, Fruyt 1986: 232f. — [de Vaan, s.v. vitricus, p. 698]

2. vī^trĭcus — Lewis & Short

vī^trĭcus, i, m.,

I a step-father, Cic. Att. 15, 12, 2; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51, § 135; id. Mur. 35, 73; id. Brut. 68, 240; Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 16; Tac. A. 3, 29; Suet. Tib. 7.—Poet., of Vulcan, the husband of Venus, in relation to Cupid, the son of Jupiter and Venus: vitricus, Ov. Am. 1, 2, 24.

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. vitricus (scan p. 698; entry #2006).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uitricus (scan p. 766; entry #12780).

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