The corpus record — Latin

lego2

To send with a commission

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Epistularum 6 · 75/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 18s 1 · 60.24/10k
De Bissula 2 · 54.5/10k
De Herediolo 1 · 44.84/10k
Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Lysander 2 · 37.04/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 3 · 35.29/10k
Tacitus 10 · 32.4/10k
Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Topica 18 · 26.29/10k
Apologia 50 · 23.26/10k
Tristia 52 · 22.81/10k

Densest 12 of 257 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. lēgo — Lewis & Short

To send with a commission

2. lĕgo — Lewis & Short

to bring together, to gather, collect

Attestations

lecturos Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.2
legens Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.1.4
lectaque Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.5
legisset Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.10
legerimus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.18
legimus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.37

6 of 2,879 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 831; entry #20222 Review: Under source audit

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