The corpus record — Latin

hebeo

hebeo · v. n

to be blunt

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Where it lives

de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Argonautica 5 · 1.35/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hĕbĕo — Lewis & Short

hĕbĕo, ēre, v. n.,

I to be blunt or dull (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Lit.: ferrum nunc hebet? Liv. 23, 45, 9.—

II Trop., to be dull, sluggish, inactive, not lively: gelidus tardante senecta Sanguis hebet, Verg. A. 5, 396: corpus hebet somno, Val. Fl. 4, 41: stella hebet, id. 5, 371: et jam Plias hebet, Luc. 2, 722: ipsi hebent mira diversitate naturae, cum iidem homines sic ament inertiam et oderint quietem, lounge about, Tac. G. 15: quid stolidi ad speciem notae novitatis hebetis? are amazed, Aus. Epigr. 69: temporis adversi sic mihi sensus hebet, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 48: olim annis ille ardor hebet, Val. Fl. 1, 53: hebent irae, Stat. Th. 11, 386.

In the wild

6 of 72 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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