The corpus record — Latin

Zoroastres

Zoroastres · m

Zoroaster

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Where it lives

Apologia 4 · 1.86/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 14 · 0.35/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Zōrŏastres — Lewis & Short

Zōrŏastres, is, m.,

I Zoroaster, a lawgiver of the Medes, Just. 1, 1, 9; Plin. 30, 1, 2, § 3; App. Mag. p. 291.—Hence, Zōrŏ-astrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Zoroaster, Zoroastrian: susurri, i. e. magical, Prud. Apoth. 494 (where Zŏr-, by solecism).

In the wild

Zoroastres Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.32
Zoroastren Apuleius, Florida 15
Zoroastre Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.1.p2
Zoroastre Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.18.p89
Zoroastres Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.24.p2
Zoroastres Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p4

6 of 20 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.