The corpus record — Latin

merso

merso · v. freq. a

to dip in, immerse

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

Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

merso — Lewis & Short

merso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a.id.,

I to dip in, immerse (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: balantumque gregem fluvio mersare salubri, Verg. G. 1, 272: balneo infertur, calida aqua mersatur, Tac. A. 15, 69.—

II Trop., to overwhelm: rerum copia mersat, drowns, destroys, Lucr. 5, 1008: mersor civilibus undis, plunge myself, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 16.—

III Pass.: mersari, to set, of the stars, Mart. Cap. 8, § 844; cf. merto.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.