The corpus record — Latin

garrio

garrio · v. a

to chatter

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
Phormio 2 · 1.84/10k
Heautontimorumenos 2 · 1.82/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

garrĭo — Lewis & Short

garrĭo, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 4, v. a.Sanscr. gir, speech; Gr. gh=rus, voice; Germ. girren, to coo; Engl. call; v. Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 177,

I to chatter, prate, chat, talk (cf. blatero).

I Lit. (class.): cum coram sumus et garrimus quicquid in buccam, Cic. Att. 12, 1, 2: cupiebam etiam nunc plura garrire, id. ib. 6, 2, 10: nugas, Plaut. Aul. 5, 21; id. Curc. 5, 2, 6: quidlibet, Hor. S. 1, 9, 13: aniles fabellas, id. ib. 2, 6, 77: libellos, id. ib. 1, 10, 41: aliquid in aurem, Mart. 5, 61, 3: garriet quoi neque pes umquam neque caput conpareat, will chatter nonsense, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 81.—Absol.: garris, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 86; id. Heaut. 3, 2, 25; 4, 6, 19; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 33: garri modo, id. ib. 3, 2, 11: saeculis multis ante gymnasia inventa sunt, quam in his philosophi garrire coeperunt, Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 21; cf.: tanta est impunitas garriendi, id. N. D. 1, 38, 108.—

II Transf., of frogs: meliusque ranae garriunt Ravennates, Mart. 3, 93, 8. Of the nightingale: lusciniae canticum adolescentiae garriunt, App. Flor. p. 258 (3, 17 fin.).

In the wild

garrit Appendix Vergiliana, Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 9
garris Martial, Epigrammata 3.96.2
garris Martial, Epigrammata 3.28.2
garriunt Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 45.6
garrire Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.1.p4
garrire Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.IX.p1

6 of 37 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.