The corpus record — Latin

fornicor

to commit whoredom

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Where it lives

De Pudicitia 4 · 2.98/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

fornĭcor — Lewis & Short

fornĭcor, ātus, 1,

I v. dep. n. [id. II.], to commit whoredom or fornication (eccl. Lat.), Tert. Pudic. 22; Vulg. Gen. 38, 24 et saep.

In the wild

fornicari Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 125.13
fornicatum Cicero, Topica 22
fornicata Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.22.36.8
fornicatus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.319
fornicati Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.8.9
fornicato Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.5.p3

6 of 13 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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