The corpus record — Latin

Zeno

Zeno · m

the name of several Greek philosophers

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Where it lives

De Otio 5 · 25.5/10k
Academica 10 · 20.53/10k
Lucullus 22 · 12.22/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 42 · 8.4/10k
de Natura Deorum 23 · 6.43/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 24 · 4.23/10k
De Anima 5 · 2.1/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Apologeticum 3 · 1.5/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Zēno — Lewis & Short

Zēno or Zēnon, ōnis, m., = *zh)nwn,

I the name of several Greek philosophers.

I The founder of the Stoic school, a native of Cittium in Cyprus; form Zeno, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 3; Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 5; 3, 4, 15; id. N. D. 2, 22, 57; Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 1; Quint. 2, 20, 7; form Zenon, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 27 B. and K.; Sen. Ep. 33, 7.—

II An Eleatic philosopher of Elea, in Magna Grœcia, Cic. Ac. 2, 42, 129; id. Tusc. 2, 22, 52; id. N. D. 3, 33, 82.—

III An Epicurean philosopher, the teacher of Cicero and Atticus, Cic. Fin. 1, 5, 16; id. N. D. 1, 21, 59; 1, 33, 93 sq.; id. Tusc. 3, 17, 38.—

IV A Greek emperor in the fifth Christian century.—Hence, Zēnōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to the emperor Zeno, Zenonian: lex, Just. Inst. 3, 2, 3.

In the wild

Zenonem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.9.6
Zenone Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.94
Zeno Cicero, Academica 2
Zenon Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.pr.2
Zeno Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.88
Zeno Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum index.p237

6 of 220 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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.