The corpus record — Latin

liveo

liveo · v. n

to be of a bluish color, black and blue, livid

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

Where it lives

Hamartigenia 3 · 4.69/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Silvae 5 · 2/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

līvĕo — Lewis & Short

līvĕo, ēre, v. n.for pliveo; Gr. pelio/s, pello/s, dark-blue; cf.: pullus, pallidus,

I to be of a bluish color, black and blue, livid: livent rubigine dentes, Ov. M. 2, 776: livere catenis, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 65.—

II Trop., to be envious, to envy (mostly poet. for invideo).

(a) Absol.: livet Carinus, rumpitur, furit, plorat, Mart. 8, 61, 1; Stat. Th. 11, 211.—

(b) With dat., to envy: livere iis, qui eloquentiam exercent, Tac. A. 13, 42: qui mihi livet, Mart. 6, 86, 6; 11, 94, 1.—Hence, lī-vens, entis, P. a.

A Bluish, lead-colored, black and blue, livid: plumbum, Verg. A. 7, 687: pruna, Ov. M. 13, 817: crura compedibus, id. Am. 2, 2, 47: oculi in morte, Stat. Th. 1, 617: venenum, Sil. 2, 707.—

B Envious: quid imprecabor, o Severe, liventi? Mart. 8, 61, 8.—Adv.: līventer, lividly, Paul. Petr. 4, 192.

In the wild

liventes Lucan, Pharsalia 2.37
livent Celsus, De Medicina 6.18.p6
liventesque Statius, Thebais 2.514
livet Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.360
liventibus Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.138
Liventesque Lucan, Pharsalia 5.215

6 of 65 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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