The corpus record — Latin

februo

to purify

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Fasti 6 · 1.92/10k

What it meant

febrŭo — Lewis & Short

febrŭo, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a. februum, to purify, expiate (ante-class.): in eorum sacris liba cum sint facta, inicere solent farris semina ac dicere, se ea februare, id est pura facere, Varr. ap. Non. 114, 22; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 13 Müll., and Paul. ex Fest. p. 85, 13 sq. Müll.; v. also februum.

In the wild

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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