The corpus record — Latin

cancello

cancello · v. a

to make like a lattice

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

cancello — Lewis & Short

cancello, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.cancelli (post-Aug.).

I In gen., to make like a lattice, to lattice: solum, i. e. with vines, Col. 4, 2, 2: cancellata cutis (elephanti), Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 30; cf. cancelli: cancellato bracchiorum implexu, id. 9, 51, 74, § 164. —

II Esp., in the Lat. of the jurists, to strike out a writing lattice-wise (*x), to strike or cross out, to cancel: testamentum, Dig. 28, 4, 2: chirographum, ib. 22, 3, 24: tabulae cautionesque cancellatae, ib. 47, 2, 84; 2, 14, 47, § 2; 29, 1, 15, § 1; Cod. 6, 33, 3.

In the wild

cancellato Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.51.p1
cancellata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.10

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cancello (scan p. 115; entry #1640).

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