The corpus record — Latin

lapidatio

lapidatio · f

a throwing of stones, a stoning

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 3 · 1.98/10k
Pro P. Sestio 2 · 1.19/10k
Pro P. Sulla 1 · 1.07/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lăpĭdātĭo — Lewis & Short

lăpĭdātĭo, ōnis, f.lapido,

I a throwing of stones, a stoning (class.).

I Lit.: fit magna lapidatio, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 95: magna, id. de Or. 2, 47, 197; id. Dom. 6, 14; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 73.—In plur.: lapidationes persaepe vidimus, Cic. Sest. 36, 77.—

II A shower of stones (post-class.): non diu lapidatione terruere Romanos, Flor. 3, 9, 6.—Transf., a hail-storm: grandinis lapidatio, Imp. Constant. Cod. 9, 18, 4.

In the wild

lapidatione Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.43.8.5
lapidatio Prudentius, Dittochaeon 45.179
lapidationibus Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 2.1.2
lapidationes Historia Augusta, Pescennius Niger 2
lapidatione Cicero, Pro P. Sulla 15
lapidationes Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 67

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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