The corpus record — Latin

blandio

to caress

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
Controversiae 23 · 3.49/10k
Octavius 4 · 3.45/10k
De Spectaculis 2 · 3.14/10k
De Pudicitia 4 · 2.98/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
De Monogamia 2 · 2.86/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k

Densest 12 of 81 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

blandĭo — Lewis & Short

blandĭo, īre, 4 (

I act. collat. form of blandior), to caress, coax, court: cur ego blandirem (mulierem), App. Mag. 87, p. 328 fin.—Part. pass.: blanditusque labor molli curabitur arte, Verr. ap. Prisc. 792 P.: blandiendo duce nutrivit malum, Sen. Hippol. 135.

In the wild

blandita Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.569
blandito Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.10.p1
blanditur Plautus, Menaechmi 4.2
blandiebatur Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 9
blandiantur Tertullian, De Spectaculis 1.1
blandisque Statius, Silvae 3.1.90

6 of 187 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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