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The corpus record — Latin

accolo

accolo · v. a

to dwell by

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ac-cŏlo — Lewis & Short

ac-cŏlo (adc.), cŏlui, cultum, 3, v. a.,

I to dwell by or near, constr. with acc. or absol.
(a) With acc.: Histrum fluvium, Naev ap. Cic. Or. 45, 152 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 14): arcem, Att. ap. Non. 357, 14 (ib. p. 202): illum locum, * Cic. Rep. 6, 18 fin.: viam, Liv. 28, 13, 4: Macedoniam, id. 39, 46, 7: Pontum, Tac. H. 3, 47: Nilum, Verg. G. 4, 288; cf.: Rhenum, Tac. H. 1, 51: nives Haemi, Ov. F. 1, 390: Capitolī saxum, Verg. A. 9, 448 al.; hence, pass.: fluvius crebris oppidis accolitur, Plin. 3, 1, 30, § 9.—
(b) Absol.: vicine Apollo, qui aedibus Propinquus nostris adcolis, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 1, 4 (the dat. aedibus belongs to propinquus, not to adcolis, as Prisc. p. 1203 P. seems to have construed).—Poet.: accolere vitem, to be a cultivating neighbor of it, Cat. 62, 55 dub. (Müller reads coluere.)

In the wild

6 of 120 attestations shown.

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.