The corpus record — Latin

zodiacus

zodiacus · m

the zodiac

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Where it lives

De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

zōdĭăcus — Lewis & Short

zōdĭăcus, i, m., = zwdiako/s,

I the zodiac (pure Lat. orbis signifer), Cic. Arat. 317; Gell. 13, 9, 6.—Hence, zōdĭăcus, a, um, adj., of the zodiac: zodiacum diastema, Sid. Ep. 8, 11: zodiacus tractus, Mart. Cap. 1, § 44: zodiaca hospitia, id. ib. 1, § 5.

In the wild

zodiacus Tertullian, De Scorpiace 10
zodiacus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.9.6
zodiaci Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.2
zodiacus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.54
zodiacus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.10.3
zodiaci Ausonius, Epistularum 13.8

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.