The corpus record — Latin

enodo

enodo · v. a

to free from knots

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Inventione 2 · 0.6/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-nōdo — Lewis & Short

ē-nōdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to free from knots.

I Lit.: vitem, Cato, R. R. 33, 1; 44; Col. 5, 6, 14.—

B Transf.: arcum, i. e. to deprive of the string, to unstring, App. M. 5, p. 172.—

II Trop., of speech, to free from obscurity, i. e. to make plain, to explain, elucidate, unfold, declare (mostly ante-class.; syn.: expedio, extrico, enucleo, expono, interpretor, explano, explico): quod quaero abs te enoda, et qui sis explica, Att. ap. Non. 15, 7; cf. Enn. Pac., Turp., and Varr. ib. 11 sq.: nomina, Cic. N. D. 3, 24, 62: praecepta, id. Inv. 2, 2, 6; id. Leg. 1, 9, 26; Auct. Her. 2, 10 fin.: plerosque juris laqueos, Gell. 13, 10, 1.— Hence, ēnōdātē, adv. (acc. to II.), clearly, plainly: narrare, Cic. Inv. 1, 21 fin.— Comp.: explicare, id. Fin. 5, 9 fin.—Sup.: expedire, Aug. Conf. 5, 6.

In the wild

enodandos Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.10.1
enodatius Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.27.p1
enodandis Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.62
enodem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.13
enodata Cicero, De Inventione 2.6
enodes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.10.p4

6 of 19 attestations shown.

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