The corpus record — Latin

general

to go

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Where it lives

De Virginibus Velandis 5 · 8.97/10k
Quomodo Substantiae in Eo Quod Sint Bonae Sint Cum Non Sint Substantialia Bona 1 · 7.28/10k
Institutio Oratoria 32 · 1.86/10k
De Inventione 6 · 1.81/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

general — de Vaan

general 'to go' in OLat. Lubotsky 2004 connects cedo with Av. siiazdr, Skt sedh- (< *siazc?-) *to chase away, (intr.) withdraw' from PIE *kiesc?-> possibly an original cp. *kies-(fh}-t The Latin development of *-ezd- > -ed- matches the similar development of *- Vzd

In the wild

generale Celsus, De Medicina 6.3
generalibus Tertullian, De Virginibus Velandis 4
generalis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.58.16
generalibus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.1.64
generali Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 33.4
generales Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.1.58

6 of 76 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. general (scan p. 117; entry #243). Root candidates: *kies-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. général (scan p. 280; entry #4388).

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