The corpus record — Latin

absterreo

absterreo · v. a

to drive away by terrifying

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

Where it lives

Divus Julius 2 · 2.05/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 3 · 1.73/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 1 · 0.86/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 1 · 0.74/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

abs-terrĕo — Lewis & Short

abs-terrĕo, ui, ĭtum, 2, v. a.,

I to drive away by terrifying, to frighten away, to deter (by fear): patrem, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 74; so Ter. Andr. 3, 1, 14: neminem a congressu meo neque janitor meus neque somnus absterruit, Cic. Planc. 27: homines a pecuniis capiendis, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58; so Hor. S. 2, 5, 83; Liv. 5, 41; Suet. Caes. 20 al.—With de: ut de frumento anseres absterreret, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 41.—With simple abl.: lenonem aedibus, Titin. ap. Non. 95, 1: teneros animos vitiis, Hor. S. 1, 4, 128; so Tac. A. 12, 45 al.—

II Transf. with an abstract object, to take away, remove, withdraw: pabula amoris sibi, Lucr. 4, 1064: satum genitalem cuiquam, id. 4, 1233: auctum, id. 5, 846.

In the wild

absterrere Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.27.9.8
absterreat Seneca, De Beneficiis 4.1.2
absterrere Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p19
absterriti Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 p41
absterreres Plautus, Mostellaria 2.1
absterruisset Tacitus, Annales 12.p46

6 of 48 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.