The corpus record — Latin

devasto

perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to lay waste, devastate (rare, and perh. not anteAug.): fines, Liv. 4, 59: Marsos, id. 22, 9…

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

dē-vasto — Lewis & Short

dē-vasto, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to lay waste, devastate (rare, and perh. not anteAug.): fines, Liv. 4, 59: Marsos, id. 22, 9: agmina ferro, Ov. M. 13, 255.—

II Trop.: fortitudinem, Vulg. Isa. 23, 14: ecclesiam, id. Act. 8, 3.

In the wild

deuastat Silius Italicus, Punica 12.160
devastata Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.256

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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