ab-lăquĕo — Lewis & Short
ab-lăquĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.laqueus, a hollow,
I to turn up the earth round a tree, in order to form a trench for water, Cato, R. R. 5, 8, 29; Col. 2, 14, 3; 4, 4, 2; Plin. 17, 19, 31, § 140.
The corpus record — Latin
ablaqueo
ablaqueo · v. a
to turn up the earth round a tree
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- ablaqueabimus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.9.17
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.