The corpus record — Latin

nobilito

nobilito · v. a

To make known, to render famous

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Where it lives

Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Parentalia 2 · 7.7/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Tyranni Triginta 1 · 1.52/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nōbĭlĭto — Lewis & Short

nōbĭlĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.nobilis.

I To make known, to render famous or renowned: disciplinā militari nobilitatus est, Nep. Iphic. 1, 1: poëtae post mortem nobilitari volunt, Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34: spectata ac nobilitata virtus, id. Fl. 26, 63: neque enim ex te umquam es nobilitatus, id. Sen. 9, 27: famam, Liv. 1, 16.—Also in an unfavorable sense, to render notorious: ne eam malefactis nobilitarent, Titin. ap. Non. 352, 8: stultum adulescentulum nobilitas flagitiis, Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 20: Phalaris, cujus est nobilitata crudelitas, Cic. Off. 2, 7, 26: adulterio nobilitatus, Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 8.—

II To render excellent, to ennoble, improve: qui novitatem suam multis rebus nobilitaverat, Vell. 2, 96, 1: Auster vites nobilitat, Pall. 1, 6, 7: quae nobilitatos maritos non haberent, ne innobilitatae remanerent, Lampr. Heliog. 4, 3.

In the wild

nobilitabat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.54.p1
nobilitavi Seneca, De Beneficiis 3.30.3
nobilitat Ausonius, Epistularum 19.12
nobilitantur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.12.p5
nobilitabit Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.8.17
nobilitantur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.7.p1

6 of 85 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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