The corpus record — Latin

capistro

capistro · v. a

To halter

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

căpistro — Lewis & Short

căpistro (āvi), ātum, 1, v. a.id..

I To halter, tie with a halter: jumenta, Col. 6, 19, 2; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 177; Ov. H. 2, 80; Sid, Carm. 22, 23.—*

II Transf., of the vine, to bind fast, to fasten, Col. 11, 2, 95.

In the wild

capistro Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.43
capistra Cato, De agri cultura 12
capistro Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.29
capistro Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.18
capistratis Ovid, Epistulae 2.80
capistrantur Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.19.2

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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