The corpus record — Latin

despuo

despuo · v. n

a., to spit out, to spit

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

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

What it meant

dē-spŭo — Lewis & Short

dē-spŭo, ĕre, v. n. and

I a., to spit out, to spit.

I Prop., Liv. 5, 40; Naev. ap. Gell. 2, 19, 6; esp. as a religious observance for averting a disease, etc.; so, act. morbos, Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 35: tenerum ignem, Claud. rapt. Pros. 2, 52; neutr., Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 27; Tib. 1, 2, 54; Plin. 10, 23, 33, § 69.— Hence,

II Trop., to reject, abhor (syn.: deprecari, aspernari, spernere, etc.), Plaut. As. 1, 1, 26: preces alicujus, Catull. 50, 19: voluptates (with spernere opes), Sen. Ep. 104 fin.—With in: acre in mores, Pers. 4, 35, dub. (others: despuat, hi mores, etc.).

Where it came from

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