The corpus record — Latin

deuro

to destroy

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Where it lives

De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

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

What it meant

dĕ-ūro — Lewis & Short

dĕ-ūro, ussi, ustum, 3,

I v. a., to burn up, consume (freq. in the historians; elsewh. rare; not in Cic.).

I Prop.: pluteos turrium, *Caes. B. G. 7, 25: vicum, Liv. 10, 4; cf.: agros vicosque (with depopulari), id. 39, 2: partem Circi, Tac. A. 6, 45: montem Caelium, id. ib. 4, 64: frumenta, id. 40, 41 et saep.—

II Transf., of cold, to destroy (cf.: aduro, amburo, and Gr. kai/ein): hiems arbores deusserat, Liv. 40, 45; cf. Curt. 8, 9, 12. And of destruction by a serpent's breath, Sen. Clem. 1, 25, 4.

Where it came from

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