The corpus record — Latin

caecutio

to be blind

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Where it lives

Florida 1 · 1.27/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

caecūtĭo, īre (no

I perf.), v. n. from caecus, like balbutio from balbus, to be blind, to see badly (ante- and post-class.), Varr. ap. Non. p. 35, 4: omnes quodammodo caecutimus, App. Flor. n. 2: utrum oculi mihi caecutiunt, Varr. ap. Non. p. 86, 12; Mart. Cap. 1, § 3.

In the wild

caecutimus Apuleius, Florida 2

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.