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blaesus1

blaesus1 · adj

lisping

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Where it lives

Annales 26 · 2.93/10k
Historiae 11 · 2.14/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 3 · 2.03/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 1 · 1.74/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 1 · 0.88/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. blaesus — Lewis & Short

blaesus, a, um, adj., = blaiso/s,

I lisping, stammering, hesitating in utterance, speaking indistinctly (most freq. in poetry): blaesus, cui litterae sibilantes (s, z) molestae sunt vitioseque pronunciantur, Popm. Differ. p. 133; Ov. A. A. 3, 294; Mart. 10, 65, 10.—Of a parrot: sonus, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 24. —Hence, subst.: blaesus, i, m., one who lisps, Dig. 21, 1, 10.—Of intoxicated persons, Juv. 15, 48; cf. Ov. A. A. 1, 598.

2. Blaesus — Lewis & Short

Blaesus, i, m.,

I a cognomen in the Sempronian gens, Stat. S. 2, 1, 191; Tac. A. 1, 16; 1, 18; 1, 21 al.; 6, 40.—Hence, Blaesĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Blœsus, Mart. 8, 38, 14.

In the wild

Blaesum Tacitus, Historiae 3.38
Blaesum Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p10
Blaeso Tacitus, Annales 3.p58
blaesis Juvenal, Saturae 5.15.48
blaeso Ovid, Amores 2.6.24
Blaesus Tacitus, Historiae 2.63

6 of 67 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. blaesus (scan p. 95; entry #1269).

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