The corpus record — Latin

zelus

zelus · m

zeal

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

zēlus — Lewis & Short

zēlus, i, m., = zh=los,

I zeal, emulation; jealousy, Vitr. 7 praef.; Prud. Ham. 188; Aus. Epigr. 77; Hier. in Gal. 2, 4, vv. 17, 18; Vulg. Num. 25, 11.

In the wild

zelus Tertullian, De idolatria 7
zelus Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.16
zelus Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 88.3

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. zélus (scan p. 783; entry #13060).

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