ē-lēgo — Lewis & Short
ē-lēgo, āvi, 1, v. a.,
I to convey away (from the family) by bequest, to bequeath away, Petr. 43, 5; Gai. Inst. 2, 215.
The corpus record — Latin
elego
elego · v. a
to convey away
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Brutus 17 · 6.77/10k
- Atticus 2 · 5.66/10k
- Orator 10 · 5.41/10k
- Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
- Noctes Atticae 36 · 3.22/10k
- Eunuchus 3 · 2.77/10k
- Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
- Divus Julius 2 · 2.05/10k
- In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 2 · 1.84/10k
- Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k
- Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
- de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 7 · 1.4/10k
Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- elegantius Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.3.4
- elegantissimos Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.7.8.p2
- elegans Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.93
- elegantissimum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.3.37
- elegans Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.92.12
- elegans Cicero, Orator 125.p2
6 of 182 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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