The corpus record — Latin

edomo

edomo · v. a

to tame completely

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-dŏmo — Lewis & Short

ē-dŏmo, ŭi, ĭtum, 1, v. a.,

I to tame completely, conquer, overcome, vanquish, subdue (rare; mostly poet. and in postAug. prose).

I Prop.: (Roma) edomito sustulit orbe caput, Ov. F. 4, 256; cf. id. A. A. 3, 114.—

II Transf.: pastinaca edomita, opp. agrestis, Col. 9, 4, 5: aes igni, to melt, Plin. 33, 3, 20, § 65: ramum oleae curvando, id. 17, 19, 30, § 137: vitiosam naturam ab eo sic edomitam et compressam esse doctrina, ut, etc., * Cic. Fat. 5, 10 (al. domitam): feritatem, Col. 11, 3, 37; Lact. 4, 25, 8: nefas, * Hor. C. 4, 5, 22: labores, Sil. 3, 531: lumina, to lull to sleep, id. 10, 343.

In the wild

edomitum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.3.p9
edomita Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.4.5
edomita Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 27.109
edomitus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.5.3
edomui Statius, Silvae 1.2.77
edomita Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.15

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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