The corpus record — Latin

lasso

lasso · v. a

to render faint

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Where it lives

In Rufinum 4 · 6.98/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 5 · 4.44/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
Ex Ponto 8 · 3.86/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Pharsalia 18 · 3.53/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k
Epistulae 8 · 3.13/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k

Densest 12 of 57 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lasso — Lewis & Short

lasso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.lassus,

I to render faint or languid, to tire, weary, fatigue, to deprive of vigor (syn.: fatigo, languefacio; perh. not ante-Aug.): aliquem, Cels. 1, 3, 1: laevam, Curt. 9, 5, 1: longior infirmum ne lasset epistola corpus, Ov. H. 20, 241: brachia plagis, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 67. cf.: lassata gravi ceciderunt brachia massā, Juv. 6, 421: visu lassatur inani, Val. Fl. 1, 707: oculos, Stat. Th. 5, 483: jam vitia primo fervore adulescentiae indomita lassavit, Sen. Ep. 68, 13; 70, 3; 88, 10; id. Clem. 1, 19, 4; Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 36; 30, 16, 53, § 149: numina, to weary with petitions, Luc. 5, 695: Cecropiam Cotytto, Juv. 2, 92.—Transf.: sidus Hyperborei Bootae, i. e. to bear steadfastly, Mart. 4, 3, 5: lassatum fluctibus aequor, i. e. become calm, Luc. 5, 703: ventus lassatur, id. 9, 453: lassata triumphis fortuna, id. 2, 727.—In mal. part., Tib. 1, 9, 55; Juv. 6, 129.

In the wild

lassa Martial, Epigrammata 7.58.4
lassa Claudian, In Rufinum 2.pr.18
lasso Pliny the Younger, Letters 9.36.5
lasso Juvenal, Saturae 3.8.137
Lassatur Lucan, Pharsalia 9.453
lassata Seneca, De Consolatione ad Helviam 11.18.6

6 of 202 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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