The corpus record — Latin

delenimentum

delenimentum · n

any thing that soothes, charms

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Historiae 1 · 2.46/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 1 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 1 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēlēnīmentum — Lewis & Short

dēlēnīmentum (delin-), i, n.delenio,

I any thing that soothes, charms, or allures, a charm, blandishment, allurement, enticement (ante - class., and repeatedly since the Aug. period, but not in Cic. or Caes.), Afran. ap. Non. 2, 4, and 8 (twice); Liv. 4, 51; 7, 38; Tac. A. 2, 33; id. Agr. 21; id. H. 1, 77 al.

In the wild

delenimentis Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 p12
delenimentum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.4.51.5
delenimentis Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.11.2
delenimentum Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 p51
delenimenta Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.7.9
delenimenta Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.5.7

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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