The corpus record — Latin

negito

negito · v. freq. a

to deny steadfastly, to persist in denying

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Where it lives

Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant

nĕgĭto — Lewis & Short

nĕgĭto, āre, v. freq. a.id.,

I to deny steadfastly, to persist in denying (very rare): negitare adeo me natum esse, Plaut. Merc. prol. 50: perii; vix negito, id. Bacch. 5, 2, 76: quaero, qui illi ostenderit eam, quam multos annos esse negitavisset, veri et falsi notam, Cic. Ac. 2, 22, 69: ne fieri negites quae dicam posse, Lucr. 4, 913: rex primo negitare, Sall. J. 111, 2: renuit negitatque Sabellus, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 49.

In the wild

negitatque Horace, Epistulae 1.16.49
Negitat Plautus, Mostellaria 3.1
negites Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.913
negitavisset Cicero, Lucullus 69
negito Plautus, Bacchides 5.2

Where it came from

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