The corpus record — Latin

immorior

to die in

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

immŏrĭor — Lewis & Short

immŏrĭor (inm-), mortuus, 3,

I v. dep. n. [in-morior], to die in or upon any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).—Constr. with dat. and rarely in aliqua re.

I Lit.: illa sorori immoritur, Ov. M. 6, 296: hastae, Val. Fl. 6, 570: fortiter Euxinis aquis, Ov. P. 3, 7, 40; cf.: ipsis aquis, id. M. 7, 572: stellio immortuus vino, Plin. 29, 4, 22, § 73: apes immortuae in melle, id. 29, 6, 38, § 128: non exigo, ut immoriaris legationi, immorare, Auct. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 73: tormentis, Sen. Contr. 5, 34, 6: saepe tormentis pro silentio rerum creditarum immortui, Just. 44, 2, 3.—Of things: manus immortua, dying, withering, Luc. 3, 613: aura superstes Immoritur velis, i. e. dies away, Stat. Th. 1, 481.—*

II Trop.: immoritur studiis (dat. = macerat et enecat se opere rustico exercendo), he pines away, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 85.

In the wild

immortua Silius Italicus, Punica 14.403
immortua Lucan, Pharsalia 3.613
immoriens Silius Italicus, Punica 10.201
immoriens Statius, Thebais 3.545
immoritur Horace, Epistulae 1.7.85
immoritur Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.570

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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