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enervo

enervo · v. a

to take out the nerves

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 9 · 5.74/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 2 · 1.84/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-nervo — Lewis & Short

ē-nervo, āvi, ātum, 1 (scanned ĕnervans and ĕnervātum in v. a.enervis,

Prud. Cath. 8, 64; contra Symm. 2, 143),

I to take out the nerves or sinews.

I Prop. (rare and post-class.): poplites securi, App. M. 8, p. 215: cerebella, Apic. 4, 2; 7, 7: enervatus Melampus, i. e. unmanned, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 315.—

II Transf., in gen., to enervate, weaken, render effeminate (class.; esp. freq. in the part. perf.): non plane me enervavit senectus, Cic. de Sen. 10, 32: corpora animosque, Liv. 23, 18: artus undis, Ov. M. 4, 286: vires, Hor. Epod. 8, 2: animos (citharae), Ov. R. Am. 753: orationem compositione verborum, Cic. Or. 68 fin.; cf.: corpus orationis, Petr. S. 2, 2: incendium belli (with contundere), Cic. Rep. 1, 1.—Hence, ēnervātus, a, um, P. a., unnerved, weakened, effeminate, weakly, unmanly: enervati atque exsangues, Cic. Sest. 10, 24; cf. id. Att. 2, 14; id. Pis. 33 fin.; 35, 12: philosophus (with mollis and languidus), id. de Or. 1, 52 fin.— Transf. of inanimate subjects: ratio et oratio (with mollis), id. Tusc. 4, 17, 38; cf.: muliebrisque sententia, id. ib. 2, 6: vita (with ignava), Gell. 19, 12 fin.: felicitas, Sen. Prov. 4 med.

In the wild

enervati Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.114.8.p1
enerves Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.8.2
enervabis Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.166
enervatum Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.47.p2
enervat Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1.7.7
enervas Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 2.40

6 of 53 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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