The corpus record — Latin

lacteo

To suck milk, to be a suckling

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 3 · 1.92/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lactĕo — Lewis & Short

lactĕo, ēre (used almost exclusively in the

I part. pres.), v. a. lac.

I To suck milk, to be a suckling: Romulus parvus atque lactens, uberibus lupinis inhians, Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19; so, lactens Juppiter puer, id. Div. 2, 41, 85: vitulus, Ov. M. 2, 624; 10, 227: lactens hostia, Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 29; also absol.: lactentibus rem divinam facere, Liv. 37, 3.— Poet.: viscera lactentia, i. e. sucking children, sucklings, Ov. F. 6, 137.—Of the spring: tener et lactens (sc. annus), Ov. M. 15, 201. —

II To contain milk or sap, to be milky, sappy, juicy: verno tempore, cum lactent novella virentia, Pall. 3, 26; cf.: nam sata, vere novo, teneris lactentia sucis, Ov. F. 1, 351: frumenta in viridi stipula lactentia turgent, Verg. G. 1, 315: lactuca lactens, Plin. 20, 7, 26, § 67.—Subst.: lactentĭa, ium, n., milk-food, milk-dishes, Cels. 2, 28.

In the wild

lactens Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.10.p4
lactens Celsus, De Medicina 5.28.p17
lacteo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.19
lactentibus Petronius, Satyricon 86
lactentia Celsus, De Medicina 2.29
lactente Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 8.387

6 of 48 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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