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The corpus record — Latin

gemo

gemo · v. n

a

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Where it lives

  • Hercules Oetaeus 17 · 15.09/10k
  • de bello Gildonico 4 · 12.64/10k
  • Troades 6 · 8.81/10k
  • In Eutropium 6 · 8.35/10k
  • Thebais 50 · 8/10k
  • Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
  • Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
  • de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
  • Medea 3 · 5.3/10k
  • Oedipus 3 · 5.06/10k
  • de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
  • Silvae 12 · 4.79/10k

Densest 12 of 104 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

gĕmo — Lewis & Short

gĕmo, ŭi, ĭtum, 3, v. n. and

I a. [Gr. ge/mw, to be full; hence].
I Neutr., to sigh, groan.
A Lit. (freq. and class.): accurrit ad me Incurvus, tremulus, labiis demissis, gemens, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 44: cum diu occulte suspirassent, postea jam gemere, ad extremum vero loqui omnes et clamare coeperunt, Cic. Att. 2, 21, 2: neque gementem neque plorantem, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 47; cf.: hos pro me lugere, hos gemere videbam, Cic. Planc. 42, 101: gemere desiderio alicujus, id. Pis. 11, 25: ah gemat in terris! ista qui protulit ante, let him groan in the lower world, Prop. 2, 6, 31; cf. id. 2, 25 (3, 20), 12. —Of mournful music: nullo gemit hic tibicina cornu, Juv. 2, 90; cf. trop.: surda nihil gemeret grave buccina (Vergilii), id. 7, 69.—Of beasts, to cry, make a mournful noise: (leones) gementes, Lucr. 3, 297: gemuit noctua, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 59: turtur ab ulmo, Verg. E. 1, 59.—
B Poet. transf.
1 Of things, to groan, creak: visam gementis litora Bospori, Hor. C. 2, 20, 14: repleti amnes, Verg. A. 5, 806: et malus celeri saucius Africo Antennaeque gemant, Hor. C. 1, 14, 6: gemuit sub pondere cymba, Verg. A. 6, 413: stridunt funes, curvatur arbor, gubernacula gemunt, Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 4: gemuit parvo mota fenestra sono, Ov. P. 3, 3, 10: gemens rota, Verg. G. 3, 183; Val. Fl. 6, 168.—
2 In gen., of animals, to utter complaints: feras cum hominibus gemere fecimus, Avien. Fab. praef. fin.; id. 26.—
II Act., to sigh over, bemoan, bewail any thing (freq. and class.).
(a) With acc.: haec gemebant boni, sperabant improbi, Cic. Sest. 30, 66 fin.: dare, quod gemerent hostes, Lucr. 5, 1348: talia voce, Val. Fl. 5, 37: eandem virtutem istam veniet tempus cum graviter gemes, Poët. ap. Cic. Att. 2, 19, 3: flebiliter Ityn, Hor. C. 4, 12, 5: tacite tristem fortunae vicem, Phaedr. 5, 1, 6: multa ignominiam, Verg. G. 3, 226: casus urbis, Juv. 3, 214.—In pass.: atque hic status est, qui una voce omnium gemitur neque verbo cujusquam sublevatur, Cic. Att. 2, 18, 1.—
(b) With inf. (poet.): paucis ostendi gemis, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 4; Stat. Ach. 1, 281: qui servum te gemis esse diu, Mart. 9, 93, 2: sane murteta relinqui ... Sulphura contemni vicus gemit, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 7.

In the wild

6 of 394 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.