The corpus record — Latin

decollo

decollo · v. a

To take off from the neck

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Where it lives

Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k

What it meant

dē-collo — Lewis & Short

dē-collo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.collum. *

I To take off from the neck: ex collo deponere, Non. 97, 25: in tuo collo est: decolles cave, Caecil. ib.—

B Trop., to deprive, rob of a thing: quibus fructibus me decollavi, Lucil. ap. Diom. p. 361, P.—

II (lit., to strike off the head; and hence with personal object), to decollate, decapitate, behead (mostly post-class.): piratas, Fenest. ap. Diom. p. 361 P.: homines, Sen. Apocol. 6, 2; Petron. 51, 6; Schol. Juv. 13, 178; Sen. de Ira, 3, 18, 4; Vulg. Matth. 14, 10; Luc. 9, 9 al.; Aur. Vict. Epit. 19; Scrib. Comp. 194.—Absol.: miles decollandi artifex, * Suet. Calig. 32; Sen. Contr. 9, 25, 4.

In the wild

decollaret Seneca, De Ira 3.18.4
decolletur Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.2.10
decollari Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 9.2
decollari Petronius, Satyricon 51
decollavimus Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 6
decollas Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.2.4

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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