1. zeugma — Lewis & Short
zeugma, ătis, n., = zeu=gma,
I a grammatical figure, according to which two nouns or two infinitives are united to a verb which is applicable to only one of them, Ascon. ad Cic. Verr. 1, 18.
The corpus record — Latin
Zeugma2
Zeugma2 · n
a grammatical figure
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
- Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
- Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
- Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
- Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
- Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
- Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
2. Zeugma — Lewis & Short
Zeugma, ătis, n., = *zeu=gma,
I a town in Syria, on the Euphrates, now Rumkaleh, Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 67; 5, 24, 21, § 86; 34, 15, 43, § 150; Tac. A. 12, 12; Luc. 8, 237; Stat. S. 3, 2, 137.
In the wild
- Zeugma Tacitus, Annales 12.p12
- Zeugmaque Lucan, Pharsalia 8.237
- Zeugma Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.8.1
- Zeugmate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.26.p2
- Zeugmate Statius, Silvae 5.3.187
- Zeugma Statius, Silvae 3.2.137
6 of 12 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.