The corpus record — Latin

laceratio

laceratio · f

a tearing, rending, mangling, lacerating, laceration

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 2 · 1.55/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De Ira 3 · 1.35/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 1 · 1.32/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5 · 0.42/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lăcĕrātĭo — Lewis & Short

lăcĕrātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a tearing, rending, mangling, lacerating, laceration (rare but class.): corporis, Cic. Pis. 18, 42: corporum, Liv. 7. 4.—Concr.: omnia loca crinium laceratione complere, the tearings of her hair, Vulg. Esth. 14, 2.—Plur.: muliebres lacerationes genarum, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62.

In the wild

lacerationes Seneca, De Ira 3.3.6
lacerationi Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.8.24.16
laceratione Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.32.38.8
lacerationes Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.85.27
laceratione Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 p24
laceratione Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 p39

6 of 26 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.