The corpus record — Latin

voveo

to promise, vow

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

Distribution

Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Timoleon 1 · 12.08/10k
Eclogarum Liber 3 · 10.96/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 4 · 9.62/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 7 · 9.23/10k
Epistularum 8 · 8.8/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 7 · 8.29/10k
Ibis 3 · 7.63/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.57/10k
de Bello Gothico 3 · 7.44/10k

Densest 12 of 139 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. voveo — de Vaan

to promise, vow

2. vŏvĕo — Lewis & Short

to vow

3. voveö — Walde–Hofmann

vüvi, völum, -ére „gelobe, verspreche feierlich

Attestations

votis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.11
votis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.8.14
vovisse Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.10.3
voti Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.51
votisque Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.10.1
votis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.9.8

6 of 645 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.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan pp. 705-706; entry #2020 Review: Under source audit
OCR root-candidate values are withheld pending source verification, rights review, and scholarly review. No root, reconstruction, cognate, or historical relationship is asserted here.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 76; entry #961 Review: Under source audit
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan p. 1745; entry #3345 Review: Under source audit

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.