The corpus record — Latin

defingo

v. a., to form, to put in shape, to fashion (very rare; prob. belonging properly to the vulgar lang.; hence in Hor., by…

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k

What it meant

dē-fingo — Lewis & Short

dē-fingo, nxi, 3,

I v. a., to form, to put in shape, to fashion (very rare; prob. belonging properly to the vulgar lang.; hence in Hor., by way of sarcasm): panem, Cato R. R. 74 and 121.—Sarcast. of coarse poetic description: dum Defingit Rheni luteum caput, * Hor. S. 1, 10, 37.

In the wild

defingito Cato, De agri cultura 74
definxeris Cato, De agri cultura 121

Where it came from

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

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