The corpus record — Latin

dealbo

dealbo · v. a

to whiten over, to whitewash, to parget, plaster

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Where it lives

Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
In C. Verrem 2 · 0.2/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

dĕ-albo — Lewis & Short

dĕ-albo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.albus,

I to whiten over, to whitewash, to parget, plaster (good prose, but rare): columnas, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 55 fin. (twice): parietes, Pall. 1, 24, 1; Suet. Gall. 9; Vitr. 7, 4.—Prov.: duo parietes de eadem fidelia, Curius ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; v. fidelia.—In eccl. Lat., to purify, cleanse: in sanguine Agni, Vulg. Apoc. 7, 14.—Pass., to be white, Vulg. Psa. 50, 8 al.—Hence, dĕalbātus, a, um, P. a., whitewashed, plastered: sepulchra, Vulg. Matt. 23, 27; cf. August. Conf. 7, 6.

In the wild

dealbatam Suetonius, Galba 9.1
dealbandas Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.154
dealbata Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.1
dealbentur Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.4.3
dealbatis Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 19
dealbatas Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.145

Where it came from

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