The corpus record — Latin

abnuto

to deny

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Where it lives

Captivi 2 · 2.31/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

ab-nūto — Lewis & Short

ab-nūto, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. freq. [id.], to deny (by a nod) often, to refuse: quid te adiri (Vahl. adirier; Rib. adiri tam) abnutas, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 164 (where Cic. censures the word as less forcible than vetas, prohibes, absterres, and the like): quid mi abnutas? Tibi ego abnuto? Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 79.

In the wild

abnutas Plautus, Captivi 3.4
abnutas Cicero, De Oratore 3.164
abnuto Plautus, Captivi 3.4

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.