gĕlasco — Lewis & Short
gĕlasco, ĕre,
I v. inch. n. [gelo], to turn to ice, to freeze:
vini natura non gelascit,Plin. 14, 21, 27, § 132.
The corpus record — Latin
gelasco
gelasco
to turn to ice
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- gelascit Tertullian, De Scorpiace 1
- gelascit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.21
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.