The corpus record — Latin

abrado

abrado · v. a

to scratch off

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Where it lives

Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 1 · 2.1/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ab-rādo — Lewis & Short

ab-rādo, si, sum, 3, v. a.,

I to scratch off or away, to scrape away, rub off; of the beard, to shave.

I Lit.: manibus quidquam abradere membris, Lucr. 4, 1103; so id. 4, 1110: supercilia penitus abrasa, Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: barbam in superiore labro, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 162.—Of plants: partes radicum, to grub up, Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 82; cf. arida, Col. 10, 3: abrasae fauces, made rough, Luc. 6, 115: abrasa corpora, peeled off, a)posu/rmata, Scrib. Comp. 215.—

II Meton., to take or snatch away, to seize, extort, rob, Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 19: nihil a Caecinā litium terrore, Cic. Caecin. 7, 19: aliquid bohis, Plin. Pan. 37, 2.

In the wild

abrasit Statius, Silvae 2.7.106
abraduntur Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.7.2
abradere Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1110
abradere Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1103
abradens Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.88.11
Abrasitque Lucan, Pharsalia 6.545

6 of 15 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.