The corpus record — Latin

litura

litura · f

a smearing, anointing

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Where it lives

Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 2 · 6.42/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Ex Ponto 3 · 1.45/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Epistulae 3 · 1.17/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
In C. Verrem 10 · 1/10k
Epigrammata 5 · 0.89/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lĭtūra — Lewis & Short

lĭtūra, ae, f.lino,

I a smearing, anointing.

I In gen.: solem etiam et pluviam arcet ejusmodi litura, Col. 4, 24, 6.—

II In partic.

A Lit., a rubbing or smearing of the wax on a writing-tablet, in order to erase something written; hence, a blotting out, erasure, correction: unius nominis litura, Cic. Arch. 5, 9.—

B Transf.

1 Concr., a passage erased, an erasure: videtis extremam partem nominis demersam esse in litura, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 191: litterae lituraeque omnes assimilatae, id. ib. 2, 2, 77, § 189: carmen multā liturā coërcere, Hor. A. P. 292.—

2 A blot, blur made in a writing: haec erit e lacrimis facta litura meis, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 4. littera suffusas quod habet maculosa lituras, Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 15.—

3 A wrinkle: cum corpus nulla litura notet, Mart. 7, 18, 2.—

C Trop., an alteration: nec ulla in decretis ejus litura sit, Sen. Vit. Beat. 8, 2.

In the wild

liturae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.12.p2
litura Propertius, Elegiae 4.3.4
litura Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.191
lituram Horace, Epistulae 2.1.167
litura Martial, Epigrammata 7.17.8
litura Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta 9

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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