The corpus record — Latin

elavo

elavo · v. a

to wash out

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Where it lives

Rudens 3 · 2.53/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
De bello Gallico 3 · 0.58/10k

What it meant

ē-lăvo — Lewis & Short

ē-lăvo, lāvi, lautum, lōtum, 1, v. a.,

I to wash out or away, to wash clean (very rare; not in the Cic. per.).

I Lit.: elota cerussa, Cels. 6, 6, no. 3: elota oliva, Col. 12, 52, 21.—

II Transf.: elautae ambae sumus opera Neptunia, washed in the sea, wrecked, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 37; so, in mari elavare, to wash or bathe in the sea, i. e. to be shipwrecked, ruined, id. ib. 2, 7, 21; 5, 2, 20.— Hence, trop.: nos mare acerrumum: nam in mari repperi, hic elavi bonis, have lost, been stripped of property, id. As. 1, 2, 9 (but Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 7, the true reading is elutum, Ritschl, Brix).

In the wild

elautae Plautus, Rudens 3.3
Elaver Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 7.34.2
Elaver Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 7.35.1
elavi Plautus, Asinaria 1.2
elavi Plautus, Rudens 5.2
elavi Plautus, Rudens 2.7

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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