The corpus record — Latin

deblatero

to babble, blab out

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

Where it lives

Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

dē-blătĕro — Lewis & Short

dē-blătĕro, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to prate of a thing, to babble, blab out (ante and post-class.): versuum multa milia, Gell. 9, 15, 10; id. 1, 2, 6.—With acc. and inf., Plaut. Aul. 2, 3, 1; Lucil. ap. Non. 96, 10.

In the wild

deblaterantes Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.2.6
deblateratis Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.15.10
deblateravisti Plautus, Aulularia 2.3

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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.