The corpus record — Latin

xystus

xystus · m

a covered portico

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Where it lives

De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Letters 10 · 1.54/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

xystus, i, m., or xystum, i, n., = custo/s or custo/n.

I Among the Greeks, a covered portico or gallery, where the athletes exercised in winter, Vitr. 5, 11, 4; 6, 10, 5; Tert. Apol. 38.—

II Among the Romans, an open colonnade or portico, or a walk planted with trees, etc., for recreation, conversation, philosophic discussion, etc., Cic. Att. 1, 8, 2; id. Brut. 3, 10; id. Ac. 2, 3, 9; Sen. Ira. 3, 18, 3; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 17; 5, 6, 19; 9, 7, 4; 9, 36, 3; Suet. Aug. 72; Phaedr. 2, 5, 18.

In the wild

xystum Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 2.5.18
xystum Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.11.4.p1
xysto Cicero, Lucullus 9.p2
xystus Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.17.17
xysto Seneca, De Ira 3.18.4
xystum Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.17.18

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. xystus (scan p. 783; entry #13055).

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