The corpus record — Latin

cacumino

cacumino · v. a

to point

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Where it lives

Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

căcūmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.cacumen,

I to point, make pointed (prob. formed by Ovid): summas cacuminat aures, Ov. M. 3, 195: saxoque cacuminat ensem, Sid. Carm. 7, 414: ova cacuminata, Plin. 10, 52, 74, § 145: apex in conum cacuminatus, Sid. Ep. 2, 2.

In the wild

cacuminat Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.91
cacuminat Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.195
cacuminat Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.412
cacuminata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.52.p2

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.