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The corpus record — Latin

haesito

haesito

to stick fast

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Where it lives

  • Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
  • Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
  • De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
  • De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
  • De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
  • Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 2 · 1.33/10k
  • De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k
  • Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
  • Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 2 · 1.19/10k
  • Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
  • Lucullus 2 · 1.11/10k
  • Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

haesĭto — Lewis & Short

haesĭto, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. freq. n. [haereo], to stick fast, remain fixed in a place.
I Lit. (rare; not in Cic.): ut, si eam paludem Romani perrumpere conarentur, haesitantes premerent ex loco superiore, Caes. B. G. 7, 19, 2: ita in vadis haesitantis frumenti acervos sedisse illitos limo, Liv. 2, 5, 3; Lucr. 6, 334; 5, 697.—
b Prov.: haesitare in eodem luto, i. e. to be exposed to the same danger, Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 15.—
II Trop. (opp. firmness), to be uncertain, hesitating. *
A In speech: linguā haesitantes, hesitating, stammering, Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115.—
B In mind, to be uncertain, undecided, to be at a loss, to hesitate (so most freq.; cf.: cunctor, moror, tardo): dubitant, haesitant, revocant se interdum, Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 52: cum haesitaret, cum teneretur, quaesivi, etc., id. Cat. 2, 6, 13: in novis rebus haesitare, id. Ac. 2, 5, 15; cf.: Carbo ignarus legum, haesitans in majorum institutis, not well versed in, id. de Or. 1, 10, 40: num in eo, qui sint hi testes, haesitatis? id. Fragm. Or. p. Corn. 2, p. 453 Orell.: haesitavit ob eam causam, quod nesciret, id. de Or. 1, 51, 220; id. Fin. 2, 6, 18: itaque non haesitans respondebo, id. Ac. 1, 2, 4: ubi ad pecuniae mentionem ventum erat, haesitabat, Liv. 44, 25, 9: ut deliberare, non haesitare videamur, Quint. 10, 7, 22.—Impers. pass.: de mutando rei publicae statu haesitatum erat, Suet. Claud. 11.

In the wild

6 of 70 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.