LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

globo

globo · v. a

to make into a ball

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Where it lives

What it meant

glŏbo — Lewis & Short

glŏbo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id.,

I to make into a ball, to make round or spherical (postAug. and perh. only pass. and mid.).
I Lit.: dependentes ubique guttae parvis globantur orbibus, Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163; 18, 13, 34, § 130: formam mundi in speciem orbis absoluti globatam esse, id. 2, 2, 2, § 5.—
II Transf., to form into a body or crowd, to crowd together: si ante exortum solis nubes globabuntur, hiemem asperam denuntiabunt, Plin. 18, 35, 78, § 344; 11, 17, 17, § 53; cf.: coturnices globatae vehementius properant, Sol. 11 med.

In the wild

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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