The corpus record — Latin

vividus

vividus · adj

containing life

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
Aeneid 4 · 0.63/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Annales 4 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vīvĭdus — Lewis & Short

vīvĭdus, a, um, adj.vivo,

I containing life, living, animated (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. Fest. p. 376 Müll.).

I In gen. (very rare): tellus, Lucr. 1, 178.—

B Transf., of pictorial representations, true to the life, animated, spirited, vivid: signa, Prop. 2, 31 (3, 29), 8: cera, Mart. 7, 44, 2: imago, Claud. B. Get. 468 (cf.: vivi de marmore vultus, Verg. A. 6, 848).—Far more freq.,

II Pregn., full of life, lively, vigorous, vivid: corpus, Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 10: senectus, Tac. A. 6, 27: Umber (canis), Verg. A. 12, 753: dextra bello, id. ib. 10, 609: vis animi, Lucr. 1, 72; so, animi, Plin. Pan. 44, 6: ingenium, Liv. 2, 48, 3: pectus, id. 6, 22, 7: bello vivida virtus, Verg. A. 5, 754: odia, Tac. A. 15, 49: eloquentia, id. ib. 13, 42: epigrammata, Mart. 11, 42, 1.— Comp.: merum, Mart. 8, 6, 12: spiritus, Val. Max. 5, 1, ext. 1.—Adv.: vīvĭdē, vigorously (acc. to II.); in comp., Gell. 7, 3, 53; Amm. 30, 1, 7.

In the wild

vividum Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.917
vividam Minucius Felix, Octavius 38.4
vividumque Martial, Epigrammata 12.61.1
Vivida Martial, Epigrammata 11.42.1
vivida Vergil, Aeneid 5.754
vividiusque Martial, Epigrammata 8.6.12

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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