The corpus record — Latin

marcidus

marcidus · adj

withered, wasted, shrunk, decayed, rotten

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Thebais 4 · 0.64/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

marcĭdus — Lewis & Short

marcĭdus, a, um, adj.marceo,

I withered, wasted, shrunk, decayed, rotten (mostly poet. and post-Aug.).

I Lit.: lilia marcida, Ov. M. 10, 92: aures, Plin. 11, 37, 50, § 137: cicatrices, id. prooem. 23: stagna, foul, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 280: asseres vetustate marcidi fiunt, Vitr. 2, 8, 20: manus, Val. Max. 6, 9, 6 ext.—

II Transf., weak, feeble, languid, enervated, exhausted: huc incede gradu marcidus ebrio, Sen. Med. 69: marcidus edomito bellum referebat ab Haemo Liber, Stat. Th. 4, 652: somno, Plin. Pan. 63: somno aut libidinosis vigiliis, Tac. A. 6, 10; Plin. Pan. 63: sol, faint, pale, dull, Poët. ap. Diom. p. 445 P.: senectus, Val. Max. 7, 7, 4: oculi libidine marcidi, languishing, voluptuous, App. M. 3, p. 135, 34.

In the wild

marcida Prudentius, Cathemerina 7.18
marcida Statius, Thebais 7.685
marcidis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.praef.p3
marcida Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 1.1.282
marcida Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.8.20.p1
marcida Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.498

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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