The corpus record — Latin

decumbo

decumbo · v. n

To lie down

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 3.13/10k
Casina 2 · 2.58/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Mercator 2 · 2.34/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-cumbo — Lewis & Short

dē-cumbo, cŭbŭi, 3, v. n.

I To lie down, sc. in bed or on a couch, to recline at table, to lie ill, be confined by sickness (good prose), Cato R. R. 156, 4: super lectum, Suet. Ner. 48: in aureo lecto, id. Caes. 49: hospes me ad cenam vocat. Venio, decumbo, Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 98; so of reclining at table (cf. accumbo), id. Curc. 2, 3, 72; id. Stich. 5, 1, 6; Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 28; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25: familia decubuit, Sen. Ep. 96, 1; Gell. 18, 10, 2: febricitans, Vulg. Marc. 1, 30.—

II Of a vanquished gladiator, t. t., to fall, Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 41; id. Phil. 3, 14, 35.

In the wild

decumbat Tertullian, De Anima 48
decumbo Plautus, Mercator 1.1
decumbere Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.41
decumbere Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.2.10
decubuit Seneca, Phoenissae 1
decubueram Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.10.2

6 of 34 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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