The corpus record — Latin

mino

mino · v. a

to drive

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 2 · 27.14/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Thyestes 5 · 7.94/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.21/10k
In Rufinum 4 · 6.98/10k
Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Octavia 3 · 5.73/10k
Achilleis 4 · 5.55/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 3 · 5.29/10k

Densest 12 of 144 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mĭno — Lewis & Short

mĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n., collat. form of minor (ante-class., acc. to

Prisc. p. 799, but v. Lachm. ad Lucr. 6, 563.—From the application of the words minari and minae to the threatening cries of cattledrivers is doubtless derived the old rustic signif., also generally adopted in the postclass. per. into the literary lang.),

I to drive animals: asinos et equum minantes baculis exigunt, App. M. 3, p. 141: asinum, id. ib. 8, p. 216: me ut suam juvencam, Aus. Epigr. 67, 3: gregem ad interiora deserti, Vulg. Exod. 3, 1: per omnem mundum (so, vaccam), Schol. Juv. 6, 526: agasones equos agentes, id est minantes, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. agasones, p. 25 Müll.—Pass. transf.: cum a validis ventis minentur (naves), Vulg. Jac. 3, 4; id. Nah. 2, 7.—Of men: eos a tribunali, Vulg. Act. 18, 16.—Hence the Ital. menare; Fl. mener.

Where it came from

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