The corpus record — Latin

lacto1

To contain milk, to have milk, to give suck

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Where it lives

Epicedion in Patrem 1 · 26.39/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Andria 2 · 2.03/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lacto — Lewis & Short

lacto, āvi, ātum (used almost exclusively in the

I part. pres.), 1, v. a. and n. lac.

I To contain milk, to have milk, to give suck: ubera lactantia, Ov. M. 6, 342; 7, 321; Lucr. 5, 885: ubera quae non lactaverunt, Vulg. Luc. 23, 29: quaecunque (femina) id temporis lactans est, Gell. 12, 1, 17.—

II To suck milk, to take the breast, to suck: puer lactans, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. 153, 26 (Trag. Rel. v. 38 Rib.); cf.: infans lactavit, Aus. Epit. 32: anni lactantes, the suckling years (of a child), id. Idyll. 4, 67.—

III To be full of milk, to be milky: metae, cheeses, Mart. 1, 43, 7 (cf.: meta lactis, id. 3, 58, 35).—Part. as subst.: lactantia, ium, n., milky food, Cels. 2, 28, 2 al.—

IV Act., to give suck to: lactaverunt catulos suos, Vulg. Thren. 4, 2: filium suum, id. 1 Reg. 1, 23.—Pass.: lactare ut nutriaris, Aug. Enarr. in Psa. 130, 12: mamilla regum lactaberis, Vulg. Isa. 60, 16.

2. lacto — Lewis & Short

lacto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a.lacio,

I to allure, wheedle, flatter, deceive with fair words, to dupe, cajole (mostly ante-class.): dictis lenibus lactare aliquem, Att. ap. Non. 16, 17: frustrando lactans, id. ib.: ita me amor lapsum animi ludificat...retinet, lactat largitur, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 9: animos, Ter. And. 5, 4, 9; 4, 1, 24: si te lactaverint peccatores, Vulg. Prov. 1, 10: nec lactes quemquam labiis tuis, id. ib. 24, 28.

In the wild

lactant Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1068
lactantiaque Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.321
lactantes Martial, Epigrammata 1.43.7
lactantem Ausonius, Parentalia 3.9
lactans Ovid, Fasti 2.656
lactes Suetonius, Vitellius 13.2

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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