The corpus record — Latin

delibuo

delibuo · v. a

to besmear, anoint

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Where it lives

Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-lĭbŭo — Lewis & Short

dē-lĭbŭo, ŭi, ūtum (dēlībūta comas, 3, v. a.LIBUO = lei/bw, cf. a)lei/fw,

Prud. Psych. 312),

I to besmear, anoint with a liquid: delibuo katabre/xw, e)laiw=, bre/xw, Gloss. Cyrill. (in the verb. finit. only late Lat.).

I Lit.

(a) Verb. finit.: eum unguentis delibuit, Sol. 12: unguentis delibuitur, Tert. Cor. mil. 12.—

(b) Part. perf.: multis medicamentis propter dolorem artuum delibutus, Cic. Brut. 60, 217; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 129: delibutus unguentis, Cic. ap. Non. 309, 2; cf. Phaedr. 5, 1, 12; capillus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 135: (meretrices) Miserae, ceno delibutae, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 55: tetra sanie, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106: atro cruore, Hor. Ep. 17, 31: cf. dona (Medeae), id. ib. 3, 13: labra pingui ceroto, Mart. 11, 98, 6: unguento, Vulg. Amos, 6, 6. —

II Trop. (only in the part. perf.): delibutus gaudio, Ter. Ph. 5, 6, 16: senium luxu delibutum, Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 90.

In the wild

delibutum Cicero, De Republica 4.5
delibutum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.1
delibuti Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.10
delibutus Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.9e.1
delibutis Horace, Epodon 3.13
delibuta Seneca, De Ira 3.33.1

6 of 27 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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