The corpus record — Latin

inalbo

inalbo · v. a

to make white

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k

What it meant

ĭn-albo — Lewis & Short

ĭn-albo and ind-albo, āre, v. a.,

I to make white or light, to whiten, brighten (ante- and post-class.): ut primum tenebris abjectis indalbabat, Enn. ap. Achill. Stat. ad Cat. 64, 40 (Ann. v. 219 Vahl.; perh. imitated by Appuleius; v. inalbeo): cerei nocturnas tenebras inalbabant, App. M. 10, p. 248, 30.

In the wild

inalbabant Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.20
inalbabat Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.24

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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