The corpus record — Latin

effusio

effusio · f

a pouring out

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Where it lives

Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 1 · 0.75/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

effūsĭo — Lewis & Short

effūsĭo, ōnis, f.effundo,

I a pouring out, pouring forth, shedding (a Ciceron. word).

I Lit.: atramenti, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 127: aquae liquor et effusio, i. e. its property of pouring forth, fluidity, id. ib. 2, 10, 26: sanguinis, Vulg. Judic. 9, 24; cf. alvi, Capitol. Gord. Tert. 28, 6.—

B Transf.

1 A pouring or rushing out of people: effusiones hominum ex oppidis, Cic. Pis. 22, 51.—

2 Profusion, prodigality, Cic. Part. 23, 81; id. Att. 7, 3, 3; Liv. 44, 9; Vop. Flor. 1.—In the plur.: pecuniarum effusiones, Cic. Off. 2, 16, 56; id. Rosc. Am. 46, 134.—

II Trop., extravagance, excess: animi in laetitia, Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 66.

In the wild

effusiones Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 51
effusiones Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 134
effusione Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.11.p4
effusio Cicero, De Partitione Oratoria 81
effusione Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.127.p1
effusiones Cicero, De Officiis 2.56.p2

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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