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linquo

To leave, quit, forsake, depart from

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 14.47/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 3 · 11.42/10k
Carmina 14 · 10.88/10k
Argonautica 30 · 8.07/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Parentalia 2 · 7.7/10k
Psychomachia 4 · 6.66/10k
Aeneid 41 · 6.47/10k
Punica 45 · 5.9/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
Phaedra 4 · 5.62/10k
Epistularum 5 · 5.5/10k

Densest 12 of 82 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. linquo — Lewis & Short

linquo, līqui, 3 (

I part. lictus, Capitol. M. Aurel. 7 dub.), v. a. Gr. lip- in lei/pw, loipo/s; cf. Lat. licet.

I To leave, quit, forsake, depart from something (cf.: destituo, desero): urbem exsul linquat, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 69: terram, Cic. Planc. 10, 26: nil intentatum nostri liquere poëtae, Hor. A. P. 285: linquenda tellus, id. C. 2, 14, 21.—Absol., to go away: linquebat comite ancilla una, Juv. 6, 119.—

B Esp.

1 Linqui animo, and simply linqui, to swoon, faint, Suet. Caes. 45: linquor et ancillis excipienda cado, Ov. H. 2, 130; so act.: me liquit animus, Sen. Troad. 623; Ov. M. 8, 363.—

2 Linquere lumen, animam, vitam, to die: lumen linque, Plaut. Cist. 3, 12: dulcia linquebant labentis lumina vitae, Lucr. 5, 989; 3, 542: linquebant dulces animas, Verg. A. 3, 140: animam, Ov. M. 13, 522; Quint. Decl. 13, 6: nec Poenum liquere doli, Sil. 5, 38. —

II To leave, give up, resign, abandon something: linquamus haec, Cic. de Or. 3, 10, 38: linquamus naturam, artesque videamus, id. ib. 3, 46, 180: linque severa, Hor. C. 3, 8, 28: spem, Val. Fl. 1, 631: inrita ventosae linquens promissa procellae, Cat. 64, 59.—

III To leave in any place or condition: erum in opsidione linquet, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 14: lupos apud oves, id. Ps. 1, 2, 8. —

IV To leave behind: linquere vacuos cultoribus agros, Luc. 9, 162: sui monumentum insigne pericli, Val. Fl. 5, 231: pharetram hospitio, id. 1, 661.—

V Impers. pass.: linquitur, it is left, it remains.— With ut and subj.: linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur. Lucr. 2, 914: et vix cernere linquitur undas, Silv. 4, 628.

2. linquó — Walde–Hofmann

linquó, 2iqut, -lictum, -ere „lasse (zurück), hinter-, überlasse“ (seit Naev. [in Prosa seit Varro und Cic., dann Vell. Sen. usw,; schon zu Plautus Zeit veraltet, Marouzeau REL, 10, 345]; delinguö ,ermangle, fehle“ seit Enn. (délictum n. seit Plt., delictor, délinquentia seit Itala u, Eccl, vgl. délicuus unten], relinguö „lasse zurück, verlasse“ seit Enn. [relicta f. „Witwe“ seit Ps. Áug., relictió seit Cic., … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. linquó, p. 840]

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. linquó (scan pp. 840-841; entry #1559). Root candidates: *reli-.

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