The corpus record — Latin

lancino

lancino · v. a

to tear to pieces, to rend, mangle, lacerate

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Where it lives

De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

lancĭno — Lewis & Short

lancĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.cf. lacer,

I to tear to pieces, to rend, mangle, lacerate (poet. and post-Aug.).

I Lit.: alium ira in cubili suo confodit ... alium intra leges celebrisque spectaculum fori lancinavit, Sen. de Ira, 1, 2, 2: morsu aliquem, Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 13: conjux membratim lancinatur, Arn. 1, 20: tot sinus Pelopennesi oram lancinant, indent, cut up, Plin. 4, 5, 9, § 19.—

II Trop., to destroy, consume, waste: Cat. 29, 18: vitam (al. lanciniare), to fritter away, waste, Sen. Ep. 32, 2: credulitatem facetiis jocularibus, Arn. 2, 47.

In the wild

lancinat Seneca, Thyestes 1
lancinant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.12.p1
lancinant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.6
lancinata Catullus, Carmina lyrics.29.17
lancinant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.5.p3
lancinat Seneca, De Ira 3.19.5

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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