The corpus record — Latin

delumbo

to lame in the loins

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Where it lives

Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

dē-lumbo — Lewis & Short

dē-lumbo, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a. id., to lame in the loins (very rare).

I Lit.: quadrupede delumbata, Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 36. —

B Transf. to vend: radices delumbatae, Plin 19, 6, 33, § 109: lacunaria curva ad circinum delumbata, bent into an arch, Vitr., 6, 5.—*

II Trop., to weaken, enervate: sententias (with concīdere), * Cic. Or. 69 fin..; cf. delumbis.

In the wild

delumbatae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.6.p3
delumbetque Cicero, Orator 231
delumbem Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.29
delumbata Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.3.9
delumbata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.4.p2
delumbem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.33.p4

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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