The corpus record — Latin

incingo

incingo · v. a

to gird

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Fasti 5 · 1.6/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

incingo — Lewis & Short

incingo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.in-cingo, to enclose with a girdle; hence,

I to gird, gird about, surround (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; not used by Cic. in prose; esp. freq. in the part. perf.): (aras) verbenis silvaque incinxit agresti, Ov. M. 7, 242: urbes turritis moenibus, id. Am. 3, 8, 47: incingi zonā, id. H. 9, 66: Arcadiam Peloponnesiacae gentes undique incingunt, Mel. 2, 3: pars sese tortis serpentibus incingebant, Cat. 64, 259.— Mid.: (Tisiphone) Induitur pallam tortoque incingitur angue, Ov. M. 4, 483: nitidaque incingere lauro, i. e. crown thyself, id. ib. 14, 720.— In part. perf.: incinctus cinctu Gabino, Liv. 8, 9, 9: Gabino cultu, id. 10, 7, 3: (Furiae) caerulea incinctae angui incedunt, Poët. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89: ambae (Nymphae) auro, pictis incinctae pellibus ambae, girded, Verg. G. 4, 342; id. A. 7, 396; cf. Lares, Ov. F. 2, 634: incinctus tunicas mercator, id. ib. 5, 675; cf. id. M. 13, 894: (fons) margine gramineo patulos incinctus hiatus, enclosed, id. ib. 3, 162.

In the wild

incincta Ovid, Fasti 3.669
incinctam Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 475
incingebant Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.258
incinctus Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.894
incinctae Vergil, Aeneid 7.396
incincta Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.6.p2

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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