The corpus record — Latin

cateno

cateno · v. a

to chain

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Carmina 8 · 3.57/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 7 · 2.66/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Captivi 2 · 2.31/10k
Amores 3 · 1.92/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cătēno — Lewis & Short

cătēno, ātus, 1, v. a.catena,

I to chain or bind together (prob. not ante-Aug.), Col. 6, 19, 2 Schneid. N. cr.; Ven. Carm. 2, 14; cf.: cateno, pede/w, Gloss. Vet.—More freq. in part. perf.: cătēnātus, a, um, bound with a chain, chained, fettered: Britannus, *Hor. Epod. 7, 8: janitor, Ov. Am. 1, 6, 1; Col. 1, praef. § 10; Quint. 8, 3, 69; Suet. Aug. 13; id. Tib. 64 al.: equorum linguae, Stat. Th. 4, 731.—Poet.: palaestrae (on account of their twining their limbs around one another), intertwined, Stat. S. 2, 1.—

b Trop.: versus ex pluribus syllabis catenatos, connected, Quint. 1, 1, 37: labores, continued, unremitting, Mart. 1, 16.

Where it came from

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