The corpus record — Latin

erado

erado · v. a

to scratch out

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Where it lives

Domitianus 2 · 5.81/10k
Commodus Antoninus 2 · 5.77/10k
Maximini Duo 3 · 5.53/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Adversus Marcionem 14 · 1.69/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-rādo — Lewis & Short

ē-rādo, si, sum, 3, v. a.,

I to scratch out, scrape off (ante-class. and since the Aug. per.).

I Lit.: eradere atque eruere terram, Varr. L. L. 5, § 136 Müll.: muscum, Col. 4, 24, 6: medullam, id. Arb. 9 fin.; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 162: aliquem (albo), to strike out, erase, Plin. Pan. 25, 3; Tac. A. 4, 42 fin.; cf.: inscriptos titulos monumento, Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 8; Amm. 15, 6, 2: corticem, Vulg. Sap. 13, 11.—Poet. transf.: genas, i. e. to shave off the beard (for which, shortly before, vellere), Prop. 4 (5), 8, 26.—

II Trop., to abolish, extirpate, eradicate, remove: curam habendi penitus corde, Phacdr. 3, prol. 21; so, elementa cupidinis pravi, * Hor. C. 3, 24, 51: vitia, Sen. Ep. 11: vestigia quoque nobilium civitatum (tempus), i. e. to obliterate, cause to be forgotten, id. 91; cf.: tempora vitae, Ov. Tr. 4, 9, 5: eum de terra, Vulg. Jer. 11, 19; id. 1 Reg. 28, 9.

In the wild

eraso Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.17.2
erasus Tertullian, De Pallio 3.p1
eradi Historia Augusta, Pescennius Niger 12
eradi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.7.p4
eraderet Tertullian, De Carne Christi 17
eradunt Celsus, De Medicina 6.6.p27

6 of 58 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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