The corpus record — Latin

deliquo

deliquo · v. a

to clear off

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Where it lives

De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. dē-lĭquo — Lewis & Short

dē-lĭquoand (in the trop. signif.) dē-lĭco, āre, v. a.liquo,

I to clear off a turbid liquid, to clarify, to strain: turbi da quae sunt deliquantur ut liquida flant, Varr. L. L. 7, § 106 Müll.; Cels. 5, 20, 5: passum in alia vasa, Col. 12, 39, 2.—

II Trop., to clear up by speaking, to explain: explanare, indicare, aperire, Non. (anteclass.): quid istic sibi vult sermo, mater, delica, Titin. ap. Non. 98, 10, and 277, 25 (v. 92, 102 Rib.); so Att. ib.; Caecil. ib. 277, 29: ut tu ipse me dixisse delices (sc. apud erum), Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 31.

2. deliquö — Walde–Hofmann

deliquö (délicG), -àre „abklären (unreine Flüssigkeiten), láutern"; übtr. „erklären, erläutern* (seit Plaut., rom. [-gu- und -e-} „auflösen*): de und liquäre „flüssig machen*, s. liqueo; de Formen mit -c- nach Thurneysen Thes. unter Einfluß von dölieia, collieige usw., in der Bed. „erklären“ ev. such nach syn. explicó. — Uber délicáre „dedicáre* s. unter delicätus. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. deliquö, p. 370]

In the wild

deliquantur Celsus, De Medicina 5.20.p6

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. deliquö (scan p. 370; entry #901).

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