The corpus record — Latin

effemino

effemino · v. a

to make feminine

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Where it lives

De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 1 · 0.86/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 9 · 0.76/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ef-fēmĭno — Lewis & Short

ef-fēmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.femina,

I to make feminine. *

I Lit.: effeminarunt eum (sc. aërem) Junonique tribuerunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 26, 66.—

II Trop., to make womanish, effeminate, to enervate: fortitudinis praecepta sunt, quae effeminari virum vetant in dolore, Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 94: corpus animumque virilem, * Sall. C. 11, 3: animos, Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 3: homines (with remollescere), id. ib. 4, 2 fin.; cf.: cogitationibus mollissimis effeminamur, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40: vultus, id. Or. in Clod. Fragm. 5, p. 153 ed. Orell.: illa elocutio res ipsas effeminat, Quint. 8 prooëm. § 20.—

B Meton. (causa pro effectu), to dishonor, disgrace, Claud. in Eutrop. 1, 10.—Hence, effēmĭnātus, a, um, P. a.

A Womanish, effeminate (cf.: mollis, luxuriosus, dissolutus): ne quid effeminatum aut molle sit, Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 30: intolerabile est servire impuro, impudico, effeminato, id. Phil. 3, 5; so absol., Col. praef. § 15; cf. histrio, Tert. Spect. 25: furialis illa vox, religiosis altaribus effeminata, Cic. Planc. 35, 86: effeminata ac levis opinio, id. Tusc. 2, 22, 52: effeminata et enervis compositio, Quint. 9, 4, 142; cf. id. 1, 8, 2; 2, 5, 10 al.—Comp.: multitudo Cypriorum, Val. Max. 9, 3 fin.—Sup.: animi languor, Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 27. —

B In mal. part., that submits to unnatural lust: pathicus, Suet. Aug. 68; Auct. Priap. 58, 2; Vulg. 3 Reg. 14, 24 al.—Adv.: effēmĭnāte, effeminately (acc. to A.), Cic. Off. 1, 4 fin.; Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 36; Val. Max. 2, 7, 9.

In the wild

effeminatissimam Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.70.6.p2
effeminet Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.1.3
effeminat Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.1.2
effeminatos Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.80
effeminatur Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.26.3
effeminata Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 p6

6 of 65 attestations shown.

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