The corpus record — Latin

hilaro

hilaro · v. a

to make cheerful

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

hĭlăro — Lewis & Short

hĭlăro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.hilaris,

I to make cheerful, to cheer, gladden, exhilarate (rare but class.): omnes jucundum motum, quo sensus hilaretur, Graece h(donh/n, Latine voluptatem vocant, Cic. Fin. 2, 3, 8: Periclis suavitate maxime hilaratae sunt Athenae, id. Brut. 11, 44; Ov. Pont. 4, 4, 37: picas mirum in modum hilarari, si interim audierint id verbum, rejoice, Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 118: ut cum caelo hilarata videatur (terra), Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 102: hilaratus vultus, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 13: Festaque pallentes hilarent altaria lucos, Stat. S. 3, 3, 24; App. M. 5, p. 168.

In the wild

hilara Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.20.4
hilaratum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.22
hilarent Statius, Silvae 3.3.24
hilarentur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.17.p3
hilaro Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.7
hilarabis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.14

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Where it came from

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