The corpus record — Latin

abnego

abnego · v. a

to refuse

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ab-nĕgo — Lewis & Short

ab-nĕgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to refuse, be unwilling (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): conjugium alicui, Verg. A. 7, 424: imbrem, Col. (poet.) 10, 51: comitem (se), Hor. C. 1, 35, 22; cf. Sil. 3, 110: depositum, to deny, Plin. Ep. 10, 97; so, partem pecuniae (pactae), Quint. 11, 2, 11; cf. Dig. 16, 3, 11 al.—With inf.: medicas adhibere manus ad vulnera pastor Abnegat, Verg. G. 3, 456; so id. A. 2, 637.—Absol.: Abnegat, inceptoque, etc., Verg. A. 2, 654.

In the wild

abnegarent Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.96.7
abnego Juvenal, Saturae 5.13.94
abnegat Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.668
abnegavit Historia Augusta, Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 20
abneget Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 14.6
abnegatam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.2.11

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. abnego (scan p. 460; entry #7405).

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