The corpus record — Latin

lenocinor

lenocinor · v. dep

To flatter, entice, allure, wheedle, cajole

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Where it lives

Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

lēnōcĭnor — Lewis & Short

lēnōcĭnor, ātus, 1, v. dep.1. leno; lit., to pander; hence, transf..

I To flatter, entice, allure, wheedle, cajole (syn.: blandior, adulor): tibi serviet, tibi lenocinabitur, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 48: gloriae alicujus, Sen. Contr. 1: alicui captatione testamenti, Plin. 20, 14, 57, § 160.—

II To forward, serve, promote, advance (post-Aug.): ut libro isti novitas lenocinetur, Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 7: anceps hic et lubricus locus est, etiam cum illi necessitas lenocinatur, id. ib. 1, 8, 6: quo vitio mancipiorum negotiatores formae puerorum lenocinantur, Quint. 5, 12, 17: Harii insitae feritati arte ac tempore lenocinantur, i. e. increase, add to, Tac. G. 43 fin.

In the wild

lenocinante Cicero, Academica 2
lenocinatur Pliny the Younger, Letters 1.8.6
lenocinans Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.10.p15
lenocinantur Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 43.5
lenocinatum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.14.p6
lenocinatur Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 6.6

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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