The corpus record — Latin

abominor

abominor · v. dep

to deprecate

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Where it lives

Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 2 · 1.48/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăb-ōmĭnor — Lewis & Short

ăb-ōmĭnor, ātus, 1, v. dep.,

I to deprecate any thing as an ill omen (not in Cic.).

I Lit.: cum dixisset sepulcrum dirutum proram spectare, abominatus, etc., when he had spoken the words a ruined sepulchre, etc., wishing that this (the sepulchre, or the words spoken) might not be of evil omen, Liv. 30, 25 fin.; so also id. 6, 18, 9; Suet. Claud. 46.—Hence: quod abominor, which may God avert, Ov. M. 9, 677; id. P. 3, 1, 105; Plin. Ep. 6, 22, 7 al.—With inf.: haec universa habere abominabitur, Sen. Ben. 7, 8.—

II In gen. (opp. to opto), to abominate, abhor, detest, Liv. 30, 30, 9; Col. 6, prooem. § 1; Quint. 4, 1, 33.—Hence derivv.,

1 ăbōmĭnan-ter, adv., abominably, detestably, Cod. Th. 3, 12, 13.—

2 ăbōmĭnandus, a, um, P. a., abominable, Liv. 9, 38 fin.; Sen. Ben. 1, 9; Quint. 8, 4, 22; 9, 2, 80.!*?

1 Collat. act. form ăbōmĭno, are: multam abomina, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 82.—

2 ăbōmĭnor in pass. signif.: saevitia eorum abominaretur ab omnibus, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 791 P.—So Part.: abominatus, abominated, accursed: Hannibal, Hor. Epod. 16, 8: semimares, Liv. 31, 12, 8: bubo funebris et maxime abominatus, Plin. 10, 12, 16.

In the wild

abominor Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 7.16.5
abominamur Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.86
abominanda Seneca, De Ira 1.20.4
Abominandum Seneca, De Ira 1.12.6
abominatus Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.40.4.8
abominatus Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.30.25.12

6 of 65 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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