The corpus record — Latin

eventilo

to set in motion

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ē-ventĭlo — Lewis & Short

ē-ventĭlo, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to set in motion (the air), to fan (post-Aug.).

I Lit.: (aërem graviorem) emendant assiduo linteorum jactatu eventilando, Plin. 31, 3, 28, § 49; cf. Just. 44, 1 fin.: frumenta, to winnow, i. e. to purify by winnowing, Col. 1, 6, 23.—*

II Trop.: opes eventilatae, i. e. scattered, dissipated, Sid. Ep. 1, 9.

Where it came from

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