exēsor — Lewis & Short
exēsor, ōris, m.exedo,
I that which eats away any thing:
murorum (aestus),i. e. an underminer, Lucr. 4, 220; 6, 926.
The corpus record — Latin
exesor
exesor · m
that which eats away
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Where it lives
- De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
- Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- exesorumque Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.16.16
- exesor Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.220
- exesor Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.926
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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