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demeto1

absol

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 12 · 1.52/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. dē-mĕto — Lewis & Short

dē-mĕto, messŭi, messum, 3,

I v. a., to mow, reap, cut off, gather, crop, harvest (class.). Usually of fruits: tempora demetendis fructibus et percipiendis accommodata, Cic. de Sen. 19, 70; cf. id. N. D. 2, 62 fin.: hordeum, Cass. Hem. ap. Prisc. p. 903 P.: demesso frumento, * Caes. B. G. 4, 32, 4; so, frumentum, Liv. 34, 26: segetes, Tac. A. 14, 24; cf.: Galli armati alienos agros demetunt, Cic. Rep. 3, 9, 15: demessa est terra, Vulg. Apoc. 14. 16.—Less freq. (poet. or in post-Aug. prose) of other objects: pollice florem, to pluck off, Verg. A. 11, 68: favos, i. e. to cut out, take out, Col. 9, 15, 12: testes caudamque adultero (ferrum), Hor. S. 1, 2, 46; cf.: huic ense caput, to behead, Ov. M. 5, 104; and absol.: acies ferro demetit, Sil. 16, 102.

2. dē-mēto — Lewis & Short

dē-mēto, āre, v. dimeto.

In the wild

demetantur Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.15.4
demetatur Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.20.1
demessum Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.34.26.8
demetunt Cicero, De Republica 3.15
demetant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.4.p2
demessi Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.15.12

6 of 35 attestations shown.

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