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effetus

that has borne fruit; exhausted

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Where it lives

Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 12 · 1.52/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 3 · 1.22/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Aeneid 4 · 0.63/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. effetus — de Vaan

effetus 'that has borne fruit; exhausted' (Lucr.+). Pit. ψίο-. PIE *dheh,-to- 'having given birth'. Risch 1984: 189-191 has shown that the earliest meaning attested for fitus is 'having given birth', 'breeding1 (of birds), from which 'fertilized, fertile' was derived by means of a metaphor mainly applied to the earth and to plants. Only rarely does it — [de Vaan, s.v. effetus, p. 231]

2. ef-fētus — Lewis & Short

ef-fētus (not effoetus), a, um, adj.,

I that has brought forth young, that has laid eggs (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit. (mostly in Col.): cum effetae loca genitalia tumebunt, Col. 7, 7, 4; 7, 12, 11; 9, 1, 7.—Poet.: simul effetas linquunt examina ceras, Luc. 9, 285.—

II Meton. (causa pro effectu).

A Exhausted, worn out by bearing: aliquae (gallinae) in tantum, ut effetae moriantur, Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 146; cf. Sall. C. 53, 5.—

B Transf., in gen., exhausted, worn out: tellus, * Lucr. 2, 1150; cf.: effetum et defatigatum solum, Col. praef. § 1: natura (with lassa), Plin. Ep. 6, 21, 1: tauri senio effeti, Col. 6, 24, 1: corpus, * Cic. de Sen. 9, 29; cf. vires (corporis), Verg. A. 5, 396: spes, i. e. vain, delusive, Val. Fl. 4, 380.—Poet.: verique effeta senectus, incapacitated for truth, Verg. A. 7, 440 (cf.: Vana veri, id. ib. 10, 630).— Comp.: oratio effetior, App. Flor. p. 366.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

In the wild

effetus Statius, Thebais 6.873
effetum Cicero, De Senectute 29.p2
effetum Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.17.6
effetus Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.312
effetae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.53.p1
effetus Statius, Thebais 1.462

6 of 50 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. effetus (scan p. 231; entry #567).

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