The corpus record — Latin

lapso

to slip, slide, stumble, fall

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Where it lives

Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
Punica 5 · 0.66/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

lapso — Lewis & Short

lapso, āre,

I v. freq. n. [id.], to slip, slide, stumble, fall.

I Lit. (poet. and in postAug. prose): (Priamum) in multo lapsantem sanguine nati, Verg. A. 2, 551: sanguine suo et lubrico paludum lapsantes (equi), Tac. A. 1, 65: lapsantibus equis, id. H. 1, 79: lapsantem gressum firmare, Sil. 3, 632; Flor. 2, 10, 3: Gyan vidi lapsare cruentae Vulnere Myrmidonis, fall, Stat. Th. 5, 223: plantis lapsantibus, Amm. 14, 2, 6.—

II Trop. (post-class.): verba lapsantia, i. e. babbled forth, Gell. 1, 15, 1.

In the wild

lapsantes Appendix Vergiliana, Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 18
lapsaret Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.26.10.3
lapsantem Silius Italicus, Punica 10.145
lapsantibus Tacitus, Historiae 1.81
lapsantibus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.15.1
lapsantibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.2.6

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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