The corpus record — Latin

acclino

acclino · v. a

to lean on

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ac-clīno — Lewis & Short

ac-clīno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to lean on or against something (not before the Aug. period; mostly poet.).

I Lit.: se acclinavit in illum, Ov. M. 5, 72: latus leoni, Stat. Silv. 4, 2, 51.—Most freq. in part. pass.: acclinatus: colla acclinata, Ov. M. 10, 268; cf.: terrae acclinatus, id. ib. 14, 666: castra tumulo sunt acclinata, Liv. 44, 3, 6: maria terris, Stat. Silv. 5, 4, 5.—

II Trop., with se, to incline to a thing: ad causam senatus, Liv. 4, 48, 9.

In the wild

acclinatus Petronius, Satyricon 103
acclinata Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.666
acclinaturos Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 p48

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.