The corpus record — Latin

cero

cero · v. a

to cover

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 38.76/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 6 · 8.6/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
De Medicina 73 · 7.12/10k
Georgicon 9 · 6.36/10k
Amores 9 · 5.76/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 4.89/10k
Fasti 15 · 4.81/10k

Densest 12 of 80 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cēro — Lewis & Short

cēro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.cera,

I to cover, overlay, or smear with wax, to wax: dolia, Col. 12, 52, 15.—More freq. in part. pass.: cerata tabula, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 18: tabella, * Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; cf. Dig. 32, 52: pennae, * Hor. C. 4, 2, 2: taedae, Ov. H. 7, 23: rates, id. ib. 5, 42; cf. puppes, id. R. Am. 447.

Where it came from

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