The corpus record — Latin

excerno

excerno · v. a

to sift out

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Where it lives

Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De Medicina 18 · 1.76/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6 · 0.76/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ex-cerno — Lewis & Short

ex-cerno, crēvi, crētum, 3, v. a.,

I to sift out, to separate (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I In gen.: furfures a farina, Col. 8, 4, 1: frumenta, i. e. to cleanse, id. 2, 20, 5; cf.: caementa cribris, Vitr. 7, 6: ex captorum numero excretos Saguntinos in patriam remisit, Liv. 28, 39, 10; cf.: excernere parvos, Grat. Cyneg. 289: omnem forensem turbam excretam in quatuor tribus conjecit, Liv. 9, 46 fin.—Part. perf. subst.: excreta tritici, what is sifted out, the chaff, Col. 8, 4, 1; 8, 8, 6.—

II In partic.

A To keep apart, keep away: multi jam excretos prohibent a matribus haedos, Verg. G. 3, 398 Heyne and Forbig. ad loc.—

B To carry off, discharge (from the body): venter excernit mollia, Cels. 2, 8: quae excreturi sumus, id. 4, 1 al.

Where it came from

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