The corpus record — Latin

erodo

no perf

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 45 · 1.14/10k
De Medicina 10 · 0.98/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ē-rōdo — Lewis & Short

ē-rōdo,

I no perf., rōsum, 3, v. a., to gnaw off or away, to consume.

I Prop.: vites (animalia), Plin. 30, 15, 52, § 146; cf. frondes, Col. poet. 10, 323.—

II Transf.

A In gen., to eat away, corrode: aes, ferrum (aqua), Plin. 31, 2, 19, § 28: arbores sale, id. 12, 9, 20, § 37.—

B Esp. in medic. lang., of erosive remedies, Cels. 5, 28; Plin. 24, 11, 52, § 89; 34, 15, 46, § 176.

Where it came from

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