The corpus record — Latin

iubeo

to order

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Where it lives

Praefatiunculae 7 · 127.74/10k
Dittochaeon 7 · 57.19/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 19s 1 · 49.75/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 6 · 45.49/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 289 · 38.96/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 26 · 34.2/10k
Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Severus 13 · 30.87/10k
Pescennius Niger 7 · 30.74/10k
Apocolocyntosis 8 · 29.53/10k
Datames 5 · 27.44/10k
De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k

Densest 12 of 309 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

iubeo — de Vaan

iubeo 'to order' [v. II; pf. iussi, ppp. iussum; SCBac. ioub-, ious-] (Andr.+) Derivatives: iussus, -Us 'bidding, command' (P1.+), iniussu [adv.] 'without orders' (Cato+). Pit. *joup-eje/o-. PIE *Hioudh-eie/o- 'to cause to move'. IE cognates: Skt. pr. yudhya- 'to fight', — [de Vaan, s.v. iubeo, p. 326]

In the wild

iussi Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.13.2.31
iubeo Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.261
iubet Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.37.1
iuberent Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 p27
iussus Cicero, In L. Catilinam 2.12
iubebo Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.34.24

6 of 5,336 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. iubeo (scan p. 326; entry #837).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. jubeo (scan pp. 756-760; entry #1443). Root candidates: *geu-, *eu-, *gaud2-.

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