The corpus record — Latin

abusque

abusque · prep

even from

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

ăb-usque — Lewis & Short

ăb-usque, prep. (vox Vergil.),

I even from, as far as from, like ab constr. with abl.: Siculo prospexit abusque Pachyno, Verg. A. 7, 289: animalia maris Oceano abusque petiverat, Tac. A. 15, 37; so App. Mag. p. 311 med.; Amm. 19, 4 al. (in Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 97, the correct read. is usque).

In the wild

abusque Tacitus, Annales 15.p38
abusque Apuleius, Apologia 57
abusque Tacitus, Annales 13.p48
abusque Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.16.p4

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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