The corpus record — Latin

desideo

desideo · v. n

to remain

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Where it lives

Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
De Constantia 2 · 3.78/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
De Medicina 18 · 1.76/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-sĭdĕo — Lewis & Short

dē-sĭdĕo, sēdi, 2, v. n.sedeo,

I to remain or continue sitting, to sit long; and with the accessory idea of inactivity, to sit idle, to remain inactive (rare; not in Cic.).

I In gen.: tam diu Ibi desidere neque redire filium, Plaut. Bac. 2, 3, 4; id. Ps. 4, 4, 7: frustra ibi totum desedi diem, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 2: aquila ramis, Phaedr. 2, 4, 21; cf.: amoenioribus locis, Quint. 5, 8, 1: apud Nicomedem, Suet. Caes. 2: in aliquo spectaculo, Sen. Ep. 7: in discrimine sociorum, Suet. Caes. 4.—

II In partic., to go to stool, Cels. 2, 7; 2, 12 fin.; 4, 18.

Where it came from

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