The corpus record — Latin

devolo

away

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Where it lives

Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

dē-vŏlo — Lewis & Short

dē-vŏlo, āre,

I v. n., to fly down or away (very rare).

I Lit.

(a) To fly down: devolant angues jubati deorsum in impluvium, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 56: Iris per caelum, Verg. A. 4, 702: sibi de caelo devolaturam in sinum victoriam, Liv. 7, 12, 13.—

(b) To fly away: turdus devolet illuc, ubi, etc., Hor. S. 2, 5, 11: phoenicem devolavisse in Aegyptum, Plin. 10, 2, 2, § 5.—

II Transf., to hasten down, to fly or hasten away: de tribunali, Liv. 2, 29: in terram, Lucr. 6, 205: praecipites in forum, Liv. 3, 15; cf.: raptim ad puerum, Petr. 105, 8: ab afflicta amicitia transfugere atque ad florentem aliam devolare, * Cic. Quint. 30, 93; cf. absol. Auct. Her. 4, 17, 24.

Where it came from

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

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