The corpus record — Latin

denudo

to uncover

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

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

What it meant

dē-nūdo — Lewis & Short

dē-nūdo, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to lay bare, make naked, denude.

I i. q., nudo, to uncover (rare but class.).

A Lit.: denudatis ossibus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106: ne Verres denudetur a pectore, ne cicatrices populus Romanus aspiciat, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13: capita cum superciliis denudanda tonsori praebuimus, Petr. 103, 3: matresfamilias et adultas aetate virgines, Suet. Aug. 69: (surculi) medullam, Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 2: femur virginis, Vulg. Judith, 9, 2.—

B Trop., to disclose, reveal, detect, betray, expose: denudavit mihi suum consilium, Liv. 44, 38; cf. id. 42, 13: multa incidunt quae invitos denudent, Sen. Tranq. 15: arcana amici, Vulg. Sir. 27, 17.—

II i. q., spolio, to strip, plunder. *

A Lit.: civibus Romanis crudelissime denudatis ac divenditis, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 15.— *

B Trop.: ne dum novo et alieno ornatu velis ornare juris civilis scientiam, suo quoque eam concesso et tradito spolies atque denudes, id. de Or. 1, 55, 235.

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