The corpus record — Latin

eradico

to pluck up by the roots

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Where it lives

Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Adversus Praxean 1 · 0.68/10k

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

What it meant

ē-rādīco — Lewis & Short

ē-rādīco (exr-), āvi, ātum, 1 (archaic

I inf. eradicarier, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 21), v. a., to pluck up by the roots, to root out, eradicate (an ante-class. word).

I Lit.: ex terra enata, Varr. R. R. 1, 27, 2: plantationem, Vulg. Matt. 15, 13; 13, 29 al.—

B Transf.: aliquem, to root out, utterly destroy, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 38; id. Truc. 3, 1, 15; id. Merc. 4, 4, 35; id. Bacch. 5, 1, 6; Ter. And. 4, 4, 22; id. Heaut. 3, 3, 28; Vulg. Jer. 18, 7.—*

II Trop.: pugnis memorandis suis hominum aures, i. e. to wear out, pester with talking, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 53.

Where it came from

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