The corpus record — Latin

decolo

to come to naught, to fail

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Tristia 2 · 0.88/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-cōlo — Lewis & Short

dē-cōlo, āvi (

I old fut. perf. decolassit = decolaverit, Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 28), 1, v. n. colum; lit., to trickle from or through; hence trop., to come to naught, to fail (ante-class.): si spes decolabit, Plaut. Gapt. 3, 1, 37; cf. id. Casin. 2, 4, 28: quorum si alterutrum decolat, Varr. R. R. 1, 28.

In the wild

decolor Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.2.10
Decolor Ovid, Epistulae 9.4
decolor Lucan, Pharsalia 7.851
decolor Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.600
decolor Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.226
decolor Ausonius, Epistularum 5.5

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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