The corpus record — Latin

defundo

down, pour out

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
De Patientia 2 · 4.42/10k
De Scorpiace 2 · 2.51/10k
De agri cultura 3 · 1.92/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k

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

What it meant

dē-fundo — Lewis & Short

dē-fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3,

I v. a., to pour down, pour out (in the ante-Aug. per. very rare; not in Cic. and Caes.).

I In gen.: aquam, Cato R. R. 156, 5: vinum (sc. ex dolio in amphoram), Hor. S. 2, 2, 58: late sanguinem, Sil. 5, 453 et saep.: ovi album in vas, Cels. 6, 6, 1; cf.: aliquid in fictilia labra, Col. 12, 50, 10 al.—Poet. transf.: fruges pleno cornu, pours forth, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 29: verba pectore, Petr. 5, 22; cf.: voces pectore, id. 121, 102.—

II Esp., a religious t. t., to pour out, as a libation: te prosequitur mero Defuso pateris, Hor. Od. 4, 5, 34; so, libamenta Mercurio, Val. Max. 2, 6, 8.

In the wild

defundit Tertullian, De Scorpiace 3
defuso Silius Italicus, Punica 5.453
defusum Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.23.p2
defundere Seneca, Thyestes 1
defundens Tertullian, De Patientia 5
defusa Appendix Vergiliana, Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 11

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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