The corpus record — Latin

lanio1

lanio1 · v. a

to tear

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Where it lives

Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Ars Amatoria 4 · 2.69/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Suasoriae 2 · 1.95/10k
Metamorphoses 15 · 1.93/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k

Densest 12 of 63 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lănĭo — Lewis & Short

lănĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.etym. dub.; cf. lacer, da/knw,

I to tear or rend in pieces, to mangle, lacerate (class.; cf.: lacero, discerpo, dilanio).

I Lit.: hominem, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 3: corpora a feris laniata, id. Tusc. 1, 45, 108: lanianda viscera praebere, Liv. 9, 1, 9: laniando dentibus hostem exspirare, id. 22, 51, 9: foede crura brachiaque, Tac. H. 1, 41: vestem, Ov. M. 5, 398: vestes, Quint. 11, 3, 174: Priamiden laniatum corpore toto vidit, Verg. A. 6, 494: digitis ora, Ov. A. A. 3, 678: carmen, Dig. 33, 7, 18 init.—With Gr. acc.: flavos Lavinia crinīs, Et roseas laniata genas, Verg. A. 12, 606: comas, Ov. M. 4, 139.—Transf., poet.: venti mundum laniant, Ov. M. 1, 60: laniata classis, id. H. 7, 175.—

II Trop. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): et tua sacrilegae laniarunt carmina linguae, Ov. R. Am. 367: vitia cor laniant, Sen. Ep. 51, 13.

2. lănĭo — Lewis & Short

lănĭo, ōnis, m.1. lanio,

I a butcher (post-class.): lanionis instrumentum, Dig. 33, 7, 18; 1, 2, 2, § 24: quis tibi tunc, lanio, cernenti talia sensus, Sedul. Carm. 2, 127.

In the wild

laniando Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 p51
laniarunt Ovid, Remedia Amoris 367
laniatur Celsus, De Medicina 7.5.p1
laniataque Ovid, Epistulae 7.175
laniata Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.108
laniandos Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 1.15

6 of 128 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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