The corpus record — Latin
was
was
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Adelphi 17 · 17.18/10k
- Hecyra 7 · 7.77/10k
- Heautontimorumenos 7 · 6.37/10k
- Phormio 6 · 5.53/10k
- Andria 4 · 4.06/10k
- Eunuchus 3 · 2.77/10k
- De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
- Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
In the wild
- was Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes praef.p41
- was Terence, Hecyra front.subject_1
- was Terence, Heautontimorumenos front.subject_1
- was Terence, Adelphi front.subject_1
- was Terence, Adelphi front.subject_1
- was Terence, Phormio front.subject_2
6 of 46 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. was (scan p. 162; entry #365).
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. was (scan p. 823; entry #18551).
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.