The corpus record — Latin

incerno

incerno · v. a

to sift upon

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
De Medicina 13 · 1.27/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

in-cerno — Lewis & Short

in-cerno, ĕre, v. a.,

I to sift upon a thing, to cover or bestrew with sifting; to sift, scatter with a sieve: terram cribro, Cato, R. R. 48, 2; Col. 5, 6, 6: super fricaturam incernatur marmor, Vitr. 7, 1: incretum ( = per incerniculum sive cribrum inspersum), sifted in, Hor. S. 2, 4, 75 Orell. (but in Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 87, the correct read. is redimitum; v. Sillig. ad h. l.).

Where it came from

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