The corpus record — Latin

labefactatio

labefactatio · f

a shaking, loosening, weakening

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

lăbĕfactātĭo — Lewis & Short

lăbĕfactātĭo, ōnis, f.labefacio,

I a shaking, loosening, weakening.

I Lit.: dentium, looseness, Plin. 23, 1, 27, § 56.— *

II Trop.: mediocris labefactatio caedi comparatur, Quint. 8, 4, 14: libertatis, Cod. Th. 4, 8, 5, § 5.

In the wild

labefactationem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p21
labefactatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.4.14

Where it came from

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

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