ab-sto — Lewis & Short
ab-sto, āre, 1, v. n.,
I to stand off or at a distance from, to stand aloof:
si longius abstes,Hor. A. P. 361.
The corpus record — Latin
absto
absto · v. n
to stand off
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
- De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- abstes Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 362
- abstantia Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.1.11
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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