The corpus record — Latin

candido

candido · v. a

to make glittering

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 3 · 9.38/10k
Pro L. Murena 9 · 8.53/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Divus Augustus 3 · 2.24/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 2 · 1.36/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

candĭdo — Lewis & Short

candĭdo, āvi, 1, v. a.candidus,

I to make glittering or bright, to make white (eccl. Lat.): vestimenta sua, Tert. adv. Gnost. 12: albis vestibus candidari, Aug. Ep. 168.—P. a.: candĭdans, antis, brilliantly white, Isid. Orig. 14, 8, 21; cf. 1. candidatus, I. A.

In the wild

candidatos Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.4.57.11
candidatos Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 p33
candidatos Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 p35
candidatum Suetonius, Tiberius 42.2
candidatus Tertullian, De Baptismo 10
candidatus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.2.27

6 of 97 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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