The corpus record — Latin

ementior

to put forth

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Where it lives

De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 4 · 2.64/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 2 · 2.04/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 2 · 1.72/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 2 · 1.38/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-mentĭor — Lewis & Short

ē-mentĭor, ītus, 4,

I v. dep. a., to put forth or utter falsely, to feign, fabricate, pretend (class.): quae dixisti modo, Omnia ementitus, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 255: aliquid, Cic. Balb. 2, 5; id. Phil. 2, 33, 83; id. Opt. Gen. 7, 21; Sall. C. 49, 4; Liv. 9, 18; 21, 63, 5 al.—And with acc. and inf. as object, Cic. Planc. 30, 73; Liv. 1, 8; Suet. Calig. 51; Tac. A. 2, 66; 13, 47; id. H. 2, 42 al.; also: aliquem, to feign being any one, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 143; Petr. 82, 3.—Absol.: ego haec omnia Chrysogonum fecisse dico, ut ementiretur, etc., Cic. Rosc. Am. 44; id. Div. 1, 9; Suet. Caes. 66; cf.: alii ementiti sunt in eos, quos oderant, Cic. Part. 14, 50: concessum est rhetoribus ementiri in historiis, to depart from truth, id. Brut. 11, 42.!*? ēmentītus, a, um, in pass. signif., forged, fabricated, pretended, C. Memmius ap. Prisc. p. 793 P.; Cic. Phil. 2, 35; id. N. D. 2, 21, 56; id. Tusc. 3, 24, 58; Apul. M. 4, 5, p. 245; Diet. Cret. 1, 20.

In the wild

ementiri Cicero, Brutus 42
ementitus Cicero, Philippicae 2.83
ementiebantur Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 p3
ementiti Cicero, De Partitione Oratoria 50
ementitos Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 35
ementitum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.3.6

6 of 56 attestations shown.

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