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carnificina

carnificina · f

The office of executioner

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Where it lives

De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 1 · 0.56/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 3 · 0.53/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

carnĭfĭcīna — Lewis & Short

carnĭfĭcīna (carnŭf-), ae. f.carnifex.

I The office of executioner or hangman; capital punishment, execution: carnificinam facere = carnificem esse, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 23; cf. id. Cist. 2, 1, 1: locus carnificinae, Suet. Tib. 62.—Hence,

II Per meton., the rack, torture, torment: dolores atque carnificinas facere, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17; and ap. Non. p. 187, 30; so, carnificinam subire, Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 78: in ergastulum et carnificinam duci, Liv. 2, 23, 6.—

B Trop.: cum omnis perturbatio miseria est, tum carnificina est aegritudo, Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 27; cf. id. Sest. 65, 135 (= crudelitas).

In the wild

carnificinam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.18
carnificina Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 135
carnificinae Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.27
carnificinas Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.3.17
carnificinam Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 10
carnificina Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 3.146

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. carnificina (scan p. 399; entry #6333).

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