The corpus record — Latin

nauseo

nauseo · v. n

to be sea-sick

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Where it lives

De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 2 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

nausĕo — Lewis & Short

nausĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n.nausea,

I to be sea-sick.

I Lit., Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 93: si sine vomitu nauseavit, Cels. 1, 3.—

B Transf., to be squeamish or qualmish, to vomit: quidlibet, modo ne nauseet, faciat, Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 84: ructantem et nauseantem Antonium, id. Fam. 12, 25, 4; Juv. 6, 433.—

II Trop.

A To belch forth, i. e. give vent to, utter nonsense: ista effutientem nauseare, Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 84.—

B To cause disgust: hoc illis dictum est, qui stultitiā nauseant, Phaedr. 4, 7, 25.

In the wild

nauseans Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.89.22
nauseant Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 4.7.25
nauseet Cicero, Philippicae 2.84.p2
Nauseabit Tertullian, De Scorpiace 5
nauseans Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.21.3
nauseantis Petronius, Satyricon 103

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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.