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The corpus record — Latin

jurgo

jurgo · v. n

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jurgo — Lewis & Short

jurgo, āvi, ātum (ante-class. jurigo, 1, v. n. and

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 9; Brix ad Trin. 1, 2, 30),
I a. [from jus, not a compound of ago, v. Ritschl. Opusc. 2, 427].
I Neutr.
A To quarrel, brawl, dispute, scold: cedo, quid jurgabit tecum? Ter. Andr. 2, 3, 15: cum Davo egomet vidi jurgantem ancillam, id. ib. 5, 1, 19; Suet. Ner. 5: jurgare igitur lex putat inter se vicinos, non litigare, Cic. Rep. 4, 8, 4 (ap. Non. p. 430): ne jurgares quod, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 22.—
B To sue at law: apud aediles adversus lenones jurgare (al. jurgari), Just. 21, 5, 7: in proprio foro, Cod. Th. 2, 1, 6; 11, 33, 1.—
II Act., to chide, censure, blame: haec jurgans, Liv. 8, 33; 10, 35: istis Jurgatur verbis, Hor. S. 2, 2, 100.

In the wild

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.