The corpus record — Latin

excudo

excudo · v. a

to strike

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ex-cūdo — Lewis & Short

ex-cūdo, di, sum, 3, v. a.,

I to strike, beat or hammer out.

I Lit.: silici scintillam, Verg. A. 1, 174: ignem, Plin. 16, 40, 77, § 208.—

II Transf., to hatch out: pullos ex ovis, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf. Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 2; 10; 13: anseres aliena ova non excudunt, i. e. do not hatch them, id. ib. 3, 10, 3; § 4; 3, 9, 2; Col. 8, 14, 7.—

B To forge, mould: excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Verg. A. 6, 848.—

C In gen., to prepare, make any thing: ceras, Verg. G. 4, 57.—

D Trop., of a writing, to compose: excudam aliquid *(hraklei/deion, Cic. Att. 15, 27, 2; Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 4; Tac. de Or. 9.

Where it came from

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