abutor — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
De Corona 4 · 8.22/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 2 · 3.9/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
De Clementia 3 · 3.59/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 2 · 3.59/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k

Densest 12 of 82 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăb-ūtor — Lewis & Short

ăb-ūtor, ūsus, 3, v. dep.,

I to use up any thing, to use to the end, to consume entirely (utendo vel in usum consumere, Non. p. 76, 29); constr. in ante-class. period with acc., in class. per. with abl.

I Lit.

(a) With acc.: nos aurum abusos, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 126; so, argentum, id. Pers. 2, 3, 10: qui abusus sum tantam rem patriam, id. Trin. 3, 2, 56: operam, Ter. And. prol. 5 Ruhnk.: meretricem, id. Phorm. 2, 3, 66: suam vim, Lucr. 5, 1032.—

(b) With abl.: sumus parati abuti tecum hoc otio, to spend this leisure time with you, Cic. Rep. 1, 9 Creuz; so, otio liberaliter, Vell. 2, 105, 1: omni tempore, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 25: sole, id. Att. 12, 6, 2: studiis, id. Fam. 9, 6, 5: me abusum isto prooemio, id. Att. 16, 6, 4 al.: abuti aliquā re ad aliquid, to make use of for any purpose, to take advantage of: abuti sagacitate canum ad utilitatem nostram, id. N. D. 2, 60, 151; cf. id. Lig. 1, 1; id. Mil. 2, 6.—Hence,

II In a bad sense, to misuse, to abuse: sapientiam tuam abusa est haec, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 29; so in the exordium of the first oration against Cat.: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? will you abuse our patience? libertate, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 113: intemperanter otio et litteris, id. Tusc. 1, 3, 6: iis festivitatibus insolentius, id. Or. 52, 176 al.: legibus ac majestate ad quaestum, id. Rosc. Am. 19, 54; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 25, § 61; id. N. D. 1, 23, 64 al.—

B Esp., in rhet. (of words), to use improperly, Cic. Or. 27, 94; id. de Or. 3, 43, 169; Quint. 5, 10, 6 al.!*? Pass.: abusa, consumed, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 44; so also Varr.: utile utamur potius quam ab rege abutamur, ap. Prisc. p. 792 P., and Q. Hortensius, ib., abusis locis: abutendus, Suet. Galb. 14.

In the wild

abutens Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 10
abuti Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.1a.3
abutetur Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam 6.10.6
abusus Tertullian, De Pudicitia 10
abutatur Tertullian, De Corona 10
abusus Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 12

6 of 125 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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