The corpus record — Latin

castro

castro · v. a

To deprive of generative power

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Ad Nationes 4 · 2.68/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Bello Civili 8 · 2.48/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 3 · 2.04/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 2 · 1.92/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k

Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

castro — Lewis & Short

castro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.Sanscr. çastra, knife, sword.

I To deprive of generative power (both of male and female), to emasculate, castrate, geld: hircum, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 1 and 4: agnum, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 18: gallos, id. ib. 3, 9, 3; Curt. 6, 3, 12; Val. Max. 6, 1, 13; Suet. Dom. 7: sues, Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 208; 10, 21, 25, § 50; 11, 51, 112, § 261 al.—

2 Transf. to plants, to prune, lop, trim, Cato, R. R. 33, 2; Plin. 17, 20, 33, § 144; 24, 8, 33, § 49.—

B Trop.: vina saccis, to pass through a sack or bag, to filter, Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 53; cf. id. 14, 22, 28, § 138 sq.: siligo castrata, i. e. cleaned, id. 18, 9, 20, § 86: semen, id. 15, 14, 15, § 51.—

II In gen., to shorten, cut off, curtail: caudas catulorum, Col. 7, 12, 14; cf. Plin. 8, 41, 63, § 153: alvos apum, to take up, to take out the honey, Col. 9, 15, 4; 9, 15, 11; cf.: castrare alvearia, Pall. 7, 7.—

B Trop., to enervate, debilitate: castrata res publica morte Africani, weakened (a vulgar figure, acc. to Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 164; Quint. 8, 6, 15): nisi illum (Maecenatem) enervasset felicitas, immo castrasset, Sen. Ep. 19, 9: libellos, to remove obscenity, to expurgate, Mart. 1, 35, 14: vires, to diminish, Plin. 11, 18, 19, § 60: avaritiam, to check, restrain, Claud. Eutr. 1, 192.

In the wild

castret Plautus, Mercator 2.2
castraque Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 p69
castratis Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.8
castratos Celsus, De Medicina 4.31
castraque Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 p21
Castraque Lucan, Pharsalia 1.397

6 of 132 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. castro (scan p. 128; entry #1864).

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.