The corpus record — Latin

gargarizo

gargarizo · v. n

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Where it lives

De Medicina 13 · 1.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 19 · 0.48/10k

What it meant

gargărīzo — Lewis & Short

gargărīzo (also gargaridio, Varr. ap. gargarisso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and

Non. 117, 7; v. the letters D and Z: Varr. L. L. 6, § 96 Müll.; M. Aurel. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 4, 6 Mai.),

I a., = gargari/zw, to gargle, take a gargle, use as a gargle.

I Lit.: gargarizare iis, quae salivam movent, Cels. 4, 2, 1: aliqua re, id. ib. 4; 6, 10; for which also: ex aliqua re, id. 6, 6, 26; 29: aliquid, Plin. 20, 9, 34, § 87; 20, 17, 73, § 188; 20, 22, 87, § 236 et saep.—

II Transf.: poëmata ejus gargaridians, dices: O Fortuna, o Fors Fortuna! Varr. l. l.

In the wild

gargarizandum Celsus, De Medicina 6.14
gargarizati Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.19.p1
gargarizatur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p21
gargarizandum Celsus, De Medicina 6.10
gargarizatur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.22.p1
gargarizandum Celsus, De Medicina 6.6.p16

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.