castrātĭo — Lewis & Short
castrātĭo, ōnis, f.castro.
I An emasculating, castration of animals, Col. 6, 26; 7, 11, 1; Pall. Mai, 7, 3; Dig. 21, 1, 38.—
II A pruning, Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 206.
The corpus record — Latin
castratio
castratio · f
An emasculating
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Where it lives
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
- Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
- Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- castratio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.40.p1
- castratio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.17.p47
- Castrationis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.11.1
- Castrationis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.5.22
- castrationem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.32.4
- castratione Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.29
6 of 7 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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