The corpus record — Latin

labasco

to totter, be ready to fall

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Where it lives

Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

lăbasco — Lewis & Short

lăbasco, ĕre,

I v. n. inch., and lăba-scor, ci, v. dep. labo, to totter, be ready to fall (ante-and post-class.).

I Lit.: quod crebro tunditur ictu, vincitur in longo spatio tamen atque labascit, Lucr. 4, 1285; 1, 537.—

II Trop., to waver, give way, yield. —Form labascor, Att. ap. Non. 473, 9: postquam vidit misericordia labasci mentem infirmam populi, Varr. ib. 473, 11.—Form labasco: leno labascit, Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 38: labascit victus uno verbo, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 98; id. Ad. 2, 2, 31: animum vi quadam nova ictum labascere, Gell. 15, 2, 7.

In the wild

labascit Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.537
labascit Plautus, Rudens 5.3
Labascit Terence, Adelphi 2.2
labascere Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.2.7
labascit Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1285
Labascit Terence, Eunuchus 1.2

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.