1. ēlecto — Lewis & Short
ēlecto, āre, v. freq. a.elicio,
I to get out artfully, worm out a secret (a Plautin. word), Plaut. As. 2, 2, 29; id. Merc. 1, 2, 111; cf.: electabo, eliciam, Paul. ex Fest. p. 76, 6.
The corpus record — Latin
electo
electo · v. freq. a
to get out artfully
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
- Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
- Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
2. ēlecto — Lewis & Short
ēlecto, āre, v. freq. a.eligo,
I to choose, select:
legionem,Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 27.
In the wild
- Elector Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.2.p7
- electabo Plautus, Asinaria 2.2
- electaret Plautus, Mercator 1.2
- elector Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.20
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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