The corpus record — Latin

accelero

accelero · v. a

to hasten

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Where it lives

Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Punica 6 · 0.79/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ac-cĕlĕro — Lewis & Short

ac-cĕlĕro, āvi, ātum (also adc-), 1, v. a. and n.

I Act., to hasten, accelerate: gressum adcelerāsse decet, Att. ap. Non. 89, 25 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 139); so, gradum, Liv. 2, 43, 8: mortem, Lucr. 6, 772: iter, Caes. B. C. 2, 39; Liv. 31, 29: oppugnationem, Tac. A. 12, 46: consulatum alicui, id. ib. 3, 75.—Pass., Tac. Agr. 43; id. H. 2, 85; id. A. 1, 50.—

II Neutr., to hasten, to make haste: si adcelerare volent, ad vesperam consequentur, * Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 6: ipse quoque sibi acceleraret, Nep. Att. 22, 2; Liv. 3, 27, 8; Verg. A. 5, 675; 9, 221, 505; Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 74 al.: ad aliquem opprimendum, Liv. 27, 47, 8.—With local accus.: Cremonam, Tac. H. 2, 100.—Impers.: quantum accelerari posset, as speedily as possible, Liv. 3, 46, 5.

In the wild

accelerant Silius Italicus, Punica 10.528
acceleraret Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.4.8
acceleraret Cornelius Nepos, Atticus 22
acceleret Statius, Silvae 1.2.268
accelerat Seneca, Oedipus 1
acceleret Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 3.1.299

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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