The corpus record — Latin

foro

foro · v. a

to bore

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Where it lives

De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 58.82/10k
Cato 1 · 23.36/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 2 · 2.97/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k

Densest 12 of 59 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fŏro — Lewis & Short

fŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.root bhar-, Zend. bar-, cut, bore; Gr. far-, fa/ros, plough; cf. fa/ragc, fa/rugc; Germ. bohren; Angl.-Sax. borian; Engl. bore,

I to bore, pierce (mostly post-Aug. and very rare).

I Lit.: forata arbos, Col. 5, 10, 20: bene foratas habere aures, Macr. S. 7, 3; Cels. 7, 29; Sid. Ep. 9, 13.—Comically: o carnificum cribrum, quod credo fore: Ita te forabunt patibulatum per vias Stimulis, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 53.—

II Trop.: forati animi, full of holes, i. e. that retain nothing, Sen. Brev. Vit. 10.

Where it came from

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