The corpus record — Latin

laeto

laeto · v. a

to make joyful, to delight, cheer, gladden

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Where it lives

Parentalia 4 · 15.39/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 4 · 15.31/10k
Helvius Pertinax 3 · 11.54/10k
Mosella 3 · 9.23/10k
De Paenitentia 3 · 7.36/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
Agamemnon 3 · 5.39/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k

Densest 12 of 146 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

laeto — Lewis & Short

laeto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id.,

I to make joyful, to delight, cheer, gladden.

I Lit. (ante- and post-class.): oculos specie laetavisti optabili, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. 132, 32: te ut triplici laetarem bono, Att. ib.: frontem alicujus serena venustate, App. M. 3, p. 134, 16.—

II In partic., of the soil, to fertilize, render fertile, manure (postclass.): in laetandis arboribus, Pall. 1, 6, 18: loca sterilia, id. 1, 6, 13.

In the wild

laetatur Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 329
laetantem Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.41
laeto Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.1.5
laetatus Cicero, Letters to Atticus 16.7.5
laetantur Statius, Silvae 4.2.21
laetatur Horace, Carmina 2.19

6 of 502 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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