The corpus record — Latin

destillo

destillo · v. a

to drip

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
De Medicina 12 · 1.17/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 15 · 0.38/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

dē-stillo — Lewis & Short

dē-stillo (or di-stillo), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.,

I to drip or trickle down, to distil (not in Cic.).

I Prop.: lentum destillat ab inguine virus, * Verg. G. 3, 281; cf.: ex athere, Sen. Q. N. 2, 12: de capite in nares humor (from a cold), Cels. 4, 2, 4: nubes distillaverunt aquis, Vulg. Judic. 5, 4 al.—

II Transf.: tempora nardo, to drop, distil, Tib. 2, 2, 7; cf.: destillante arboribus odore mirae suavitatis, Plin. 6, 31, 36, § 198.

Where it came from

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