The corpus record — Latin

lenimentum

lenimentum · n

a softening

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

lēnīmentum — Lewis & Short

lēnīmentum, i, n.id.,

I a softening or soothing remedy; an alleviation, mollification (post-Aug.).

I Lit., Plin. 25, 5, 24, § 59.—

II Trop.: addito honestae missionis lenimento, Tac. H. 2, 67.

In the wild

lenimento Tacitus, Historiae 2.71
lenimentum Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.6e.2
lenimento Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.5.p9
lenimento Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.24.p2

Where it came from

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

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.