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effutio

to blab out

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. ef-fūtĭo — Lewis & Short

ef-fūtĭo, no

I perf., ītum, 4, v. a. FVTIO, acc. to Prisc. p. 631 P., to blab out, babble forth, to prate, chatter, utter (class.): multa ore, Lucr. 5, 910; so, aliquid, Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 84; * Hor. A. P. 231; Gell. 5, 1; cf.: effutita temere (vaticinia), Cic. Div. 2, 55, 113: de mundo, id. N. D. 2, 37, 94.—

II Absol.

(a) To blab, tell secrets: eo perperam olim dixi, ne vos foris effutiretis; and absol., Ter. Ph. 5, 1, 19.—

(b) To talk idly: ex tempore, Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 88.

2. effutio — Walde–Hofmann

effutio, -ibi, 3tum, -ire ,schwatze heraus, plaudere aus, schwatze* (seit Ter. Phorm. 746): eig. „nur so herausschütten, ausgießen“ (ab eö quod est effundere Don. z. St.; vgl. Varro 1.1. 7, 63 euax .. . nihil significat, sed effütitum nätüräliter est), Denomin. von fütis, -is „Gießkanne“ (fütió, ex quo compositum effütiö, futilis Prisc. gramm. II 131, 25 ist Rückschluß), wozu auch fütilis (futt-), -e „leicht … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. effutio, p. 426]

In the wild

effutiunt Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.1.1
effutire Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.8
effutire Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 231
effutire Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 14.1.32
effutita Cicero, De Divinatione 2.113
effutiat Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.910

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. effutio (scan p. 426; entry #995). Root candidates: *jheu-.

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